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I heard you can use a speech to text program with the game. How does this work? Which program to use? Is it worth it to use one? My typing is so slow.
Fighter Ace 3.5 Has voice communications built into the game, it is cool. Talking amongst your squad mate as you make your attack is quite nice. Instructing others which way to turn so you can line up the guy on his 6, just like the movies.
there is no built in speach program and only close nit friends ussually hasle with programs that allow teamspeak.
Heh most games nowadays require voice use or else the online mode is not so teambased anymore. I love it myself, its a nice way to tell someone in a shooter game where a snipers perch is or where they just planted a bomb.
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Fighter Ace 3.5 Has voice communications built into the game, it is cool. Talking amongst your squad mate as you make your attack is quite nice. Instructing others which way to turn so you can line up the guy on his 6, just like the movies.
Heh most games nowadays require voice use or else the online mode is not so teambased anymore. I love it myself, its a nice way to tell someone in a shooter game where a snipers perch is or where they just planted a bomb.
Speech to Text takes the spoken word and converts it to text as a method of bypassing the keyboard. It's nothing to do with any sort of teamspeak.
I did extensive research on this, as it relates to EQ, because I developed CT from typing so much in-game. As it turns out, Sony originally supported the use of outside software such as Dragon Naturally Speaking. Apparently, you were suposed to be able to activate the software once the EQ client was running. Of all the threads I've read, only one person ever got Dragon to work(or so he claimed), and that was in 2003. Since then, Sony has wormed out of supporting the function completely.
I've tried this myself with a version of Dragon supposedly compliant with EQ, and no matter what I tried, it wouldn't work. I'm still pissed off at how they (Sony) just gave up on the whole issue. I think there are a lot of people out there that could really benefit from using a Speech to Text program with EQ.
I did extensive research on this, as it relates to EQ, because I developed CT from typing so much in-game. As it turns out, Sony originally supported the use of outside software such as Dragon Naturally Speaking. Apparently, you were suposed to be able to activate the software once the EQ client was running. Of all the threads I've read, only one person ever got Dragon to work(or so he claimed), and that was in 2003. Since then, Sony has wormed out of supporting the function completely.
I've tried this myself with a version of Dragon supposedly compliant with EQ, and no matter what I tried, it wouldn't work. I'm still pissed off at how they (Sony) just gave up on the whole issue. I think there are a lot of people out there that could really benefit from using a Speech to Text program with EQ.
The times I have used speech to text software have been hilarious but hardly accurate.
The dilemma they face is between custom recognition and general recognition. Too custom and you can't use them with a cold or if even slightly excited, too general and thery catch everything said within the mike's hearing.
One of the things about EQ is that it is not a dictation environment. Hopefully there is a certain amount of excitement involved. This would tend to work against speech-to-text.
I dread to think of trying to make sense of text coming to group from someone using this:-
"Ink owning an Oak prawn" might be hard to respond to.
The dilemma they face is between custom recognition and general recognition. Too custom and you can't use them with a cold or if even slightly excited, too general and thery catch everything said within the mike's hearing.
One of the things about EQ is that it is not a dictation environment. Hopefully there is a certain amount of excitement involved. This would tend to work against speech-to-text.
I dread to think of trying to make sense of text coming to group from someone using this:-
"Ink owning an Oak prawn" might be hard to respond to.
Wherever I go - there I am.
I have to agree with what Cobra101 said...speech to text isn't really designed to handle the slang and custom wording in an mmorpg. Also I've used Dragon Naturally Speaking in the past, and no matter how much I've customized it and tweaked it, I've never gotten a very high accuracy from it. I think programs like that are still at the level where they're designed for some busy CEO who can't type to talk stuff into their computer and then have the secretary edit it.
As far as EQ supporting it, they used to (at least according to their Velious documentation that comes with the Trilogy). I bought Dragon Naturally Speaking because I had issues with carpal tunnel at the time, and I was pretty ticked off when it wouldn't work at all with EQ, and the GMs told me they didn't support it. Customer service wouldn't even give me so much as a credit on my bill for buying the program just to use with the game.
Your best bet if you're a slow typer is to get your friends on your server using Teamspeak or a similar program like Ventrilo. A lot of my closest friends on Drinal server get on a private Teamspeak server, and even when you're a fast typer it makes communication a lot easier. Not only that, the program is very simple to set up and use. Just one word of advice: Don't download it without virus protection running on your computer. Trojans are spreading like crazy through it lately, but if you use any sort of AV protection it should keep them from coming through.
As far as EQ supporting it, they used to (at least according to their Velious documentation that comes with the Trilogy). I bought Dragon Naturally Speaking because I had issues with carpal tunnel at the time, and I was pretty ticked off when it wouldn't work at all with EQ, and the GMs told me they didn't support it. Customer service wouldn't even give me so much as a credit on my bill for buying the program just to use with the game.
Your best bet if you're a slow typer is to get your friends on your server using Teamspeak or a similar program like Ventrilo. A lot of my closest friends on Drinal server get on a private Teamspeak server, and even when you're a fast typer it makes communication a lot easier. Not only that, the program is very simple to set up and use. Just one word of advice: Don't download it without virus protection running on your computer. Trojans are spreading like crazy through it lately, but if you use any sort of AV protection it should keep them from coming through.
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I did get it to work back in 2005 It was at about a 82% accuracy....
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