[MAC] ED & Voice Attack

Ulysses_W · Nov 28, 2014

I'm one of these Mac users who currently bootcamps into Win 7 FOR the sole purpose of play testing E: D. However the dreadful realisation I came to the other day was that VA isn't available on OS X.

What the hell are we going to do when the Mac version comes out!!!

I fear that we shall be forever slaved to Windows.

PGleesonuk · Nov 28, 2014

http://lifehacker.com/215764/hack-attack-make-your-macs-speech-recognition-work-for-you

Maybe we can use this?

I'm waiting for the Mac version too, so I can ditch bootcamp. But we need a voice attack substitute before I do

Ulysses_W · Nov 28, 2014

PGleesonuk said:
http://lifehacker.com/215764/hack-attack-make-your-macs-speech-recognition-work-for-you

Maybe we can use this?

I'm waiting for the Mac version too, so I can ditch bootcamp. But we need a voice attack substitute before I do

I spotted this too, after I posted. I suppose the only thing to do is try it. Is does have the ability to control apps but will that work with a game I wonder?

Might play with it a little.

[VR] Frank_G · Dec 13, 2014

Interesting link. It has the power to pass keyboard commands to apps and i bet, it is designed to work in the background, so the game can be the main thread. I will definitely give it a try, as soon as the Mac Beta is out.

Paul - HCS VoicePacks - COVAS · Feb 28, 2015

Hi folks - I'd have this developed straight away- I'd also fund it if indeed it's possible to do. I would pump in some funding and then crowd fund it. If any of you would like to seriously discuss this then hop on, get in touch. I'll do it.

Sergio Smegolia · Feb 28, 2015

OSX is actually pretty good at speech recognition. I've not used it but the NSSpeechRecognizer class seems to do what is required. I'll look into it but due to a pending house move the iMac is tucked away and not really useable at the moment.

It would be good for me though, I want to do a project is Swift, this seems like the ideal one. If I get any progress I'll post here. But don't expect anything too soon.

Paul - HCS VoicePacks - COVAS · Feb 28, 2015

I did a little more research - Lots of MAC owners have a windows partition - Playing this now.

It's weighing up just how many people on the MAC will adopt the MAC version and indeed MAC's answer to Voice Attack etc.

Jorggs · Mar 6, 2015

Hi, I'm tinkering and trying to get an equivalent to voice attack going on the mac. Not sure how successful it is going to be but it will be relying on yosemite's own inbuilt dictation and a few tweaks...

Looking promising, but may take me a while...

Slopey · Mar 6, 2015

I reckon I can knock something up for this in pretty short order - if there's enough interest of course, or someone isn't doing this already.

I already have an Apple developer account, and it looks pretty trivial to be honest.

I'll go boot up the Mac.

Jorggs · Mar 6, 2015

Slopey said:
I reckon I can knock something up for this in pretty short order - if there's enough interest of course, or someone isn't doing this already.

I already have an Apple developer account, and it looks pretty trivial to be honest.

I'll go boot up the Mac.

The issue I'm having is turning on and off dictation (hold to stay on) with a mapped joystick button :-(

MattBW · Mar 23, 2015

Very keen on a Mac version of VA too. Will watch this thread with interest

Jorggs · Mar 25, 2015

Slopey said:
I reckon I can knock something up for this in pretty short order - if there's enough interest of course, or someone isn't doing this already.

I already have an Apple developer account, and it looks pretty trivial to be honest.

I'll go boot up the Mac.

Any progress on this?

Jorggs · Mar 26, 2015

Ok, wasn't sure what interest there is going to be on here, but I'm working on something to get a voice attack equivalent going on the Mac. It's been 7 years since I quit professional programming and my learning curve for swift is pretty slow as I never used C++ or objective C previously. I have managed to get an app working that listens in the background to verbal commands and responds in some way or another. My issue is going to be using swift to respond to HID actions (i.e. joystick button presses) so if anyone has any example swift code out there, that would be good!

I'm sure someone else could knock this up quicker than I, but in the apparent absence of that, I thought I'd give it a go! Any help would be much appreciated.

PGleesonuk · Mar 29, 2015

Great job man.

VoiceAttack is a must for me now. Can't imagine playing elite without it.
I use it for much more than just voice recognition.

peter101cycle · Mar 29, 2015

The other issue (expanding the thread slightly!) is getting TrackIR to work properly as well within OSX. There's no MAC version of the TrackIR software, though I am pretty sure there is some indie / shareware version somewhere.......

This is the other thing I'm going to have to resolve (as will others I suspect).

PGleesonuk · Mar 29, 2015

There is linuxtrack which works reasonably well in their demo. Uses the freetrack protocol.

But for me that's not so important as VA

CMDR Anakin Solo · May 12, 2015

Just bumping this thread because I also want a MAC voice control / macro solution. Logic functions and variables are a must too.

Cretster · May 26, 2015

I'm using a Hackintosh at the moment and I can't get it to detect a mic when it's plugged in so I really want voice control but think I'm a bit screwed without somehow fixing that.

roads · May 31, 2015

Even a Hackintosh should not have mic input over 3.5 plug when its in OSX, the OS does not have it. You need a cheap USB soundcard and plug the antlion or whatever mic there or buy a USB mic.

jenza · Jun 27, 2015

any more info on a mac version? If it helps i wouldn't mind recording voice replies!