Clunky Controls?? Try using VAC

[BeerHunter 0]

Believe me when I tell you it's a hell of lot easier to say

"Take cover" than peek and peck for "~" ; "1"; "8".

"Everyone out" than peek and peck for "~" ; "4" ;"1"

There's a free one out there if you can find it (Pilfius) or for about $20 you can get VAC at http://www.dwvac.com

People are spending upwards of $150 for TrackIR so they can look around (a simple toggle key on the keyboard if you so desire) but for ArmA I feel the $20 I spent on VAC was a much better investment. I seldom use TrackIR on the ground because of the disorienting effect (though I wouldn't be without it for flying or FSX).

Food for thought eh? ;)

[fideco 1]

I'm using VAC too.

Very easy to use

The best immersive accessory for Arma

Cheers

[Alpha-Kilo 36]

Would you mind sharing your vac profiles? Or, if you have the time, you might be willing to take a look at the command list in my signature and post a comment. The purpose of this list is to help users of voice control software to make a profile.

[ActionMan 10]

People are spending upwards of $150 for TrackIR so they can look around (a simple toggle key on the keyboard if you so desire) but for ArmA I feel the $20 I spent on VAC was a much better investment.

Thanks for the tip, I'm an OpFP veteran so I've got all the numbers engraved in my brain, but being able to fire off commands quicker would be cool.

BTW I did just spend AU$240 on a new TrackIR 5 :o

[sunray 10]

Hi all,

Righto, got VAC up and running yesterday. This will be revolutionary for SP, if I can sort it.

One big issue, however, is the repetition (or equivalent variation) of my spoken commands. Realism is somewhat defeated.

I remember reading way back in the forums about a community created file (in ArmA) to replace the spoken commands with silence. I even downloaded it with a view to using speech recog in Arma but never got around to it.. now it's lost.

I've done a search or three on this already, no joy yet.

Any clues on how to silence the repetition?

Cheers. T

[Killerwatt 0]

I also have VAC and a profile would be most welcome.

[fideco 1]

alpha-kilo, actionman,sunray,killerwatt and everebody interested

take a look here...

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=76746

Post n.7

There's a link to a VAC Arma profile that works very well with Arma 2 too. It needs only some minor tweak

I started from there to build mine.

Cheers

[Alpha-Kilo 36]

fideco,

Thanks for the reply. I already know the profile you indicated and I agree that it is one of the best. But what exactly are the "minor tweaks" you made to improve it?

A lot of time and effort is wasted because every user of voice control software has to do the same tweaking. I am trying to summarize the knowledge of the experts in a way that new users can easily make a good and complete profile.

My list includes some questions about certain commands and menu options. Your tweaks might be have the answer to some of the questions. I'd really appreciate your help.

Sunray,

Are you by any chance looking for "mute.zip"? It mutes your in-game voice and suppresses the repetition of the commands you give via voice control. Some users say that this repetition is a good thing because it helps to verify if a command was issued correctly. Here is a link: http://soundscapes.cozywebhost.com/stuff/mute.zip

If the link doesn't work I cn send you the file by email.

[sunray 10]

Roger Alpha-Kilo, it was mute.zip, many thanks.

You may be right about the usefulness of command verification. Like readback in real life RT. I'll try it both ways once VAC is set up properly.

Link worked fine, ta.

Edited August 1, 2009 by Sunray

[Birdseye 0]

I've also have used that profile from armed assault. However, later I've started from scratch. What I wanted was speed in the commands.

http://www.mediafire.com/?q2nymdvfyz2

Also, a good addition is the small addon reducedvoices.

http://mapfact.net/Material/ArmA2/Addons/ReducedVoices/MAP_ReducedVoices_V1.01.rar

[Alpha-Kilo 36]

Sunray, I am glad i could help.

Birdseye, thanks for the profile and the link to the reduced voices addon.

[Birdseye 0]

Just a warning using vac.

It's a fantastic program, and is running fine on windows 7 ultimate ENGLISH edition x64, BUT:

When running a version of windows 7 (home-premium/professional), non-English, speech regonitioning doesn't work! Neither does VAC!

You need to switch to a English version of windows 7, or buy the ultimate (where you can set the language to English).

Put in other words, you can install vac, but when you try to use it, if says: SAPI fails to initialize. This application may not run correctly.

Installing Speech SDK 5.1 from Microsoft doesn't work.

(http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=5E86EC97-40A7-453F-B0EE-6583171B4530&displaylang=en#filelist)

There seems no solution to this problem (other then spending more $$$ for an english version), but if there is, I would be very glad to hear it!

[Alpha-Kilo 36]

Birdseye,

thanks for this important info. Have you mentioned this in the support forum of DWVAC, yet? You might get some help there. If you do, please post the result here.

Edit: I have just checked the VAC forum and found a thread started by a Danish user who reported the same problem for VISTA. Unfortunately the only advice he got was to buy VISTA Ultimate.

The only thing I can think of is to create a dual boot system with XP and 7 or to use the XP emulator which comes with 7. (This is just a vague guess, I haven't used 7, yet.)

Edited October 25, 2009 by Alpha-Kilo

[Chunk3ym4n 10]

Why use VAC when you can just use Shoot 1.6.4? It's free and there is a profile for ArmA that is mostly compatible with ArmA 2.

http://clans.gameclubcentral.com/shoot/

[Birdseye 0]

Alpha-kilo, I saw that topic too about a Danish user in de vac forum. Probably you've made a good guess with the emulator, or dualboot, but for me it's not the way to solve this problem.

As alternative, Shoot doesn't work with windows 7 x64. And Vac was working very good in the ultimate version.

Maybe as solution, I will get a OEM windows 7 home premium English DVD, and use the key of the purchased non-English version to activate win7.

So for all who want to buy windows 7 in the future, and want to use or experiment with speech regonitioning, take the English version!

Edited October 25, 2009 by Birdseye

[Alpha-Kilo 36]

Birdseye,

actually i was hoping to play ArmA2 with the German units provided by the BW mod and order them around with commands spoken in German.

I thought this would be possible with Win7 because I read somewhere that Win7 supported multiple languages. But your experience seems to show that we can only use the English language with VAC in ArmA2.

Anyway, thanks for bringing the matter up. At least it helps to choose the right version of the new OS.

[Chunk3ym4n 10]

Alpha-kilo, I saw that topic too about a Danish user in de vac forum. Probably you've made a good guess with the emulator, or dualboot, but for me it's not the way to solve this problem.

As alternative, Shoot doesn't work with windows 7 x64. And Vac was working very good in the ultimate version.

Maybe as solution, I will get a OEM windows 7 home premium English DVD, and use the key of the purchased non-English version to activate win7.

So for all who want to buy windows 7 in the future, and want to use or experiment with speech regonitioning, take the English version!

Did you try setting compatibility mode to Vista?

[rome 0]

Is there any video showing it working? that would be nice!

[dayglow 2]

Using VAC as well and enjoying it. Bern using voice control since OFP with Gamecommander. Really like with VAC is that you can setup multiple commands for a single action, so you can say setup 'all', 'everyone', 'team', 'squad', etc to all issue the all |~| command. Really works in the heat of battle so you don't have remember the exact phrase.

[Chunk3ym4n 10]

Does Pilfus work on Windows 7 64-bit?