Orion Voice Pack: it's wonderful, but Orion does like to play with the light switch!

Andrew Linton

Andrew Linton
Watch out if you have a voice that sounds a little like William Shatner's (I didn't think mine did) if you want to use desktop speakers.

[video=youtube_share;gYZ85vKzogU]https://youtu.be/gYZ85vKzogU[/video]

I'm trying the Orion Voice Pack from HCS for Elite Dangerous.

If your voice, which you've trained your speech recognition software to understand, is too close to William Shatner's, then you cannot use your desktop speakers while playing Elite Dangerous. If Orion's voice, when picked up by your microphone, is recognised by VoiceAttack, then what was a response becomes a command which repeats indefinitely. It's not a fault of the Voice Pack; it's just something you have to be aware of. It's usually better to play sounds through headphones anyway, but sometimes you just have to let your ears cool down a bit.

Maybe this is an age-old problem with VoiceAttack, but it's new to me and others might get confused by this behaviour.
 

SMcA

SMcA
Andrew Linton said:
Watch out if you have a voice that sounds a little like William Shatner's (I didn't think mine did) if you want to use desktop speakers.



If your voice, which you've trained your speech recognition software to understand, is too close to William Shatner's, then you cannot use your desktop speakers while playing Elite Dangerous.
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LOL
You should try having a west coast Glasgow accent. (I will never get in a voice controlled lift.)
Try the Brian Blessed voice. It is in a class of its own.
 

deckroid

deckroid
I added Go-tJAN, klingon for shields, for when I use a shield cell. Kirk complying with klingon is somehow warped-ly funny to me.

When I first saw voice attack used early last year on YouTube vids, I thought it was cool but not something I wanted. When Shatner was announced I pre ordered. I can't belive how immersive and fun AND handy it is to have Orion do all my keyboard functions and let me get on with just my Thustmaster 16000.

Only had it for 3 days and I have since docked my Vulture and kitted out a diamondback explorer for exploration. I'm going to hit the Orion nebula on my way back from Sag A.
 

Commander Debic

Commander Debic
Andrew Linton said:
Watch out if you have a voice that sounds a little like William Shatner's (I didn't think mine did) if you want to use desktop speakers.

https://youtu.be/gYZ85vKzogU

I'm trying the Orion Voice Pack from HCS for Elite Dangerous.

If your voice, which you've trained your speech recognition software to understand, is too close to William Shatner's, then you cannot use your desktop speakers while playing Elite Dangerous. If Orion's voice, when picked up by your microphone, is recognised by VoiceAttack, then what was a response becomes a command which repeats indefinitely. It's not a fault of the Voice Pack; it's just something you have to be aware of. It's usually better to play sounds through headphones anyway, but sometimes you just have to let your ears cool down a bit.

Maybe this is an age-old problem with VoiceAttack, but it's new to me and others might get confused by this behaviour.
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I stop him with a quick "Stop messing about William" in my best Charles Hawtree impersonantion. It seems to shock him out of his disco light show.:p
 
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Commander Debic

Commander Debic
Andrew Linton said:
Ah, I see; you have "Stop messing about William" mapped to execute "Stop All Commands"; yes, that would work.:)
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Actually thats not a bad idea although you could map it to Voice control off/on.
But it is a great pack as you say and a lot of fun. I have exported all the commands to HTML from the full house version and ran them through Word and now have a nice booklet with a front page index to help me learn all the commands.
There is just so many, but I can flip through from the index page to any of the 11 pages for any set of the extensive commands.
Earlier bed night tonight though as I was up til 5 am converting it all and tidying it up.
 
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Andrew Linton

Andrew Linton
Commander Debic said:
Actually thats not a bad idea although you could map it to Voice control off/on.
But it is a great pack as you say and a lot of fun. I have exported all the commands to HTML from the full house version and ran them through Word and now have a nice booklet with a front page index to help me learn all the commands.
There is just so many, but I can flip through from the index page to any of the 11 pages for any set of the extensive commands.
Earlier bed night tonight though as I was up til 5 am converting it all and tidying it up.
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I've started something similar and am considering separating the Education and nebula tours to a separate document so I can easily find the twenty ways to request docking and the myriad ways of saying 'Go faster' and 'Go slower'.
 

deckroid

deckroid
I have done some additional mapping as well. All Ahead Full = one hundred percent to engines, All Stop = 0 thrust, Open Hailing Frequencies = comms... Its been fun. I didnt think this would be very useful, but now I don't have to touch my keyboard.
 

punkerich

punkerich
The voice pack itself is indeed pretty cool, i do miss some phrases, though:

- SRV:Turret (refers to Hardpoints, bit of lazy)
- SRV: transfer Cargo to Ship (yeah, automated that)

and of course, i'd loved a hidden reference to Danny Crane... [big grin]
 
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