[Kuras]

I like to talk by microphone and I was surprised when I put my microphone in and launched the game then press the TILDE (~) and nothing happens, it should start recording my voice,  What's wrong with it ?

[taylor]

Did you use the -voicer cmdline option to actually enable voice recognition?

[karajorma]

I think he's on about the multiplayer voice transmission not the voice recognition.

[taylor]

Ah... guess I'm just getting paranoid.

I suppose I don't really have a valid idea then.

[spartan_0214]

This looks like the place to put this so...

How do I use the voice recog? I have the file installed, everything's ready, I just don't know how to activate the voice recog, and how to specify which wing/ship when I'm speaking?

[Huggybaby]

I haven't tried yet, but I read somewhere you have to train Windows to recognize your speech, then it will work in FreeSpace.

It's in Speech Properties in the control panel.

<edit> It's a little bit involved:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;306537

<edit>links deleted

<edit> hmm, doesn't seem to be a good free way to do it. They want you to have Office installed. Any advice anyone?

<edit> I was unable to make speech recognition work with the SDK5.1. Even though I think I'm supposed to be able to, I was getting an error message. All the normal internet suggestions didn't work, so I think I figured something out myself, I'll try again later. However, I'm proud to announce I HAVE found free voice recognition software for flight simulators at last. Here's a list with the free one at the top:

1) Flight Assistant 2.0.0, FREE!!!!
http://www.thelindercompany.de/
(Go to "Applications")

2) VR Commander, $9.95, 15 day trial
http://www.vrcommander.com/

3) Voice Activated Commands 1.8.5, 30 day trial, $10
http://www.dwvac.com/

4) Voice Buddy 3.0, $39.95
https://edimensional.com/index.php?cPath=23

5) Game Commander 2, $49.95
Game Commander 3, $74.95, $44.95 Upgrade
http://www.gamecommander.com/