[J.F.K.]

Originally posted by ChronoReverse
Quite cool

Too bad the glowmaps and the new eye-candy (which I love) runs really slowly on my box.  I tried out Derelict with the sim-sound and it's so much nicer when you can hear the voice instead having to press F4 every so often.

Ooh, that reminds me, I gotta check this on Inferno...

[RandomTiger]

You wont have much luck unless you use the exe provided in this thread:


http://mysite.freeserve.com/thomasw.../fs2_open_r.rar

[Flipside]

D'oh, thought that was the source code for the modders, my bad, I just get a 404 from the website though

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Ok, edited the link in the Address bar and got the file Checking now

Sounds great! I wonder if theres any way to tell it to ignore 'dollar' and the letter afterwards when reading the briefings though Still, as you said earlier, for free, it's great!

[RandomTiger]

No, code is in cvs.
Should have made link more clear.
Have put it at top of thread now

[Taristin]

Aside from the mispronunciation of Reticle (sounds french), and Weapon (Wee-pun), it's good.

[RandomTiger]

At the weekend I will attempt to get hold of a win98 machine with a sound card (mine doesnt have one) and work out what you have to install to get it to work. It could simply be a case of having sapi.dll in the same dir. Will post if I have any luck.

If anyone has 2000 I could do with knowing if it works.

As far as saying words wrong I believe there is some way to setup custom sounds for words that could help us sort this out.

[Taristin]

I'm on win2k. Works like a dream.

[RandomTiger]

Thanks

Todo list:

1. Get working on win98
2. Get more voices to choose from (without  downloading whole SDK)

[Raven2001]

Excuse me for my ignorance, but what is simulated speech, how does it work?? what can we do with it??

[Flipside]

RT has managed to get the Microsoft Speech program (with the SDK kit at the moment) to read your mission briefings and in-game messages to you now, so it relieves the burden of voice acting to smaller mods

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[redmenace]

Now the real question, can we implement speach recognition into the build. Doesn't Microsoft have something like that for windows as well. And actually, there are free ones out there also.

[Lightspeed]

and... if i may ask... what would you do with speech recognition?

[RandomTiger]

I believe SAPI has that kind of capibility but what would you want it for?

[Flipside]

I'll be honest, most of these programs take so long to figure out what you are saying, that it's quicker to hit the 'H' key rather than say 'Next Hostile' or whatever (and that is without Game sound in the background to add to the confusion). Also, they take up quite a lot of precious CPU time, which is starting to run a bit thin on the ground at the moment, and probably will continue to be so until HT&L rears it's headz
Also, the possibilities for mistakes are boundless, all you need is an ingame voice to say 'Cover the Behemoth until she can use her JUMP DRIVE' or something and you could be in a whole world of embarassing

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[redmenace]

Well I thought it would be interesting to be fighting and to say a message and have it typed and sent. Like "Red Leader Standing By" and " Unlock S-Foils in to attack position."  But ya I see difficulty with the scripted wave files interfering with the recognition System. Mainly I would like to have this for multiplayer chat. It takes to long currently to send messages. You have to type it in while hoping not to be destroyed. I am not sure though, did the retail of fs2 allow people to communicate with voice?

[Flaser]

Originally posted by redmenace
Well I thought it would be interesting to be fighting and to say a message and have it typed and sent. Like "Red Leader Standing By" and " Unlock S-Foils in to attack position."  But ya I see difficulty with the scripted wave files interfering with the recognition System. Mainly I would like to have this for multiplayer chat. It takes to long currently to send messages. You have to type it in while hoping not to be destroyed. I am not sure though, did the retail of fs2 allow people to communicate with voice?

It did. You just had to hold the comm button and send a message with microphone.

On the other hand, this thing could be quite bandwidth demanding, so it wasn't too feasible to play.

[Fry_Day]

It's one thing to get speech recognition, which is offered by the speech SDK, and another, more difficult task, to create a lexicographical parser that creates commands the AI can understand from text that isn't specially formatted. Besides, Speech recognition is a total processor hog. Getting it done in real time requires a >1.3GHz processor dedicated to the task, to do decently

[RandomTiger]

Multiplayer stuff isnt really revelent for fs2_open anyway.
Still, interesting idea.

[Flipside]

Besides, 'all' that seems to be asked for is a 'record and transmit' system, identical to the one in the Original FS2, but possibly with better compression. (Ogg strikes back). I still don't hold with these systems personally, it's ok'ish on DSL, pointless on Modem and even on LAN you can often walk to the other computer in time to hear your message arrive....
'Look out, that beam cannon is charging!' Never a good thing to hear as you watch the replay of your death

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[SuperCoolAl]

the fs2_open_r.rar link gives a 404. I really want this cos it will add an extra flavour to the DEM campaign.