Rift with voice attack. “Tune out the sniffs”
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Running the speech training tutorial several times can help, but there are a couple of game sounds that VA gets wrong regardless. I found that when I would jump to warp the woosh would trigger VA Astra to respond with "lights off" It would also do the same when I played certain songs. I use external speakers. I finally just deleted the command.
Also, as a note for new users in case they don't know-You don't need to actually put the Rift on your head for the mic to be active, so you can just talk into the nose gap area while reading the training paragraph off the monitor. New users of VA who like the HCS packs but, like me, want to do there own profile or modify and existing one and want a nice verbal response might find IVONA voice synthesizers a worthy investment. You can also run the free mini-reader and have a nice voice read your E-Books, web pages, emails or what ever text you select. They have many voices, accents and languages. I use AMY as she sounds a lot like HCS Astra in the HCS pack that I modified. https://harposoftware.com/en/english-uk/139-amy-british-english-voice.html
Also, as a note for new users in case they don't know-You don't need to actually put the Rift on your head for the mic to be active, so you can just talk into the nose gap area while reading the training paragraph off the monitor. New users of VA who like the HCS packs but, like me, want to do there own profile or modify and existing one and want a nice verbal response might find IVONA voice synthesizers a worthy investment. You can also run the free mini-reader and have a nice voice read your E-Books, web pages, emails or what ever text you select. They have many voices, accents and languages. I use AMY as she sounds a lot like HCS Astra in the HCS pack that I modified. https://harposoftware.com/en/english-uk/139-amy-british-english-voice.html
Why didn’t you just change the voice command to something else? ‘Nav lights on/off’ for example. There are lots of ways to eliminate clashes.
But it’s pretty crazy to use external speakers with VA on VOX, especially if you’re going to play songs.
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Updated my Astra HCS voice pack to the latest release and encountered the same problem as the OP i.e. sniffles, coughs, etc. giving an "unable to comply" response. As the OP states, it appears that the HCS VA profile is interpreting this as the voice command "mark".
Happily, editing the command appears to work. In VA:
- type "unable" in the word filter. This will bring up the commands under the "Misc - Misc" category.
- choose the multi part command called "Mark; Engage; Now; punch it; Execute".
- Delete "Mark;" and save the edit.
I'm not sure what the command does as I don't use it, but it can still be used by saying "engage", "now", "punch it" or "execute". You will probably get the "unable to comply" response if you do use it. However, the word "mark" will not be recognised, so it won't give a response, which also means no response when you sniffle, cough, etc.
Haven't rigorously tested this, but works 100% so far. If you find it doesn't work, then post the result in this thread.
Update: played 4 hours straight, not a single "unable to comply".
Happily, editing the command appears to work. In VA:
- type "unable" in the word filter. This will bring up the commands under the "Misc - Misc" category.
- choose the multi part command called "Mark; Engage; Now; punch it; Execute".
- Delete "Mark;" and save the edit.
I'm not sure what the command does as I don't use it, but it can still be used by saying "engage", "now", "punch it" or "execute". You will probably get the "unable to comply" response if you do use it. However, the word "mark" will not be recognised, so it won't give a response, which also means no response when you sniffle, cough, etc.
Haven't rigorously tested this, but works 100% so far. If you find it doesn't work, then post the result in this thread.
Update: played 4 hours straight, not a single "unable to comply".
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Sounds like it has't been configured properly. Have you done the windows voice training?
Who doesn't get this "Goat" reference...
Many times. Many, many times. I could probably recite those scripts from memory! A couple of times I sat with the command window open just watching what VA was getting (even when I was silent) and what command was coming out of it and it was crazy. This was before I got my Rift S, so I need to train again with the headset. And I now have a new microphone to try out too. I'm suspecting that turning down the confidence is going to be my first step!
What have you got programed in for self-destruct? Sounds to me like the mic sensitivity is too high or it's too close to your mouth. Try programming a longer phrase for the lights then it won't be fooled by shorter noises. I've also found that phonetic spellings help.
It just shows voice attack is not to be sniffed at.