Voice Command Games

[Berekän]

I tried Tom Clancy's End War but it was boooooring as hell, however I liked the whole voice orders thing.

So, does anyone know of any fun game that can be commanded using a mic?

 

[Emotional Vampire]

There was this console game where you were guiding some chick.

It was a console game though.

 

[GarfunkeL]

Buy DS. Apparently many DS games have some sort of voice control implemented.

 

[Emotional Vampire]

Because apparently there's nothing like screaming into your DS in a bus or on a train(since that's about only place where one would actually use it).

ROCK OUT!

 

[GarfunkeL]

Well the only person I've ever seen using a DS is my 7-year old niece, playing Nintendogs. It's kinda cute when she yells at her DS to make the pixel-doggie do tricks. At least she's not pestering me to play with her anymore. Well spent money.

 

[MetalCraze]

OFP/ArmA with Pilfius.
Saves you from a lot of pain browsing through uncomfortable menus while controlling AI squad.

 

[Berekän]

That actually looks interesting, any comments in the experience with it? Can you set your own phrases for every order or they have "premade" ones? In that case, it's very bitchy about the pronunciation?

 

[Fens]

UT 2004 had voice commands in some of the modes (no idea if ut3 does)

list here:
http://unrealtournament2004.filefront.c ... List;35808

 

[Suchy]

You can set up set up Pilfius for almost any game you want, you just link a voice command to a key sequence.

 

[MetalCraze]

That actually looks interesting, any comments in the experience with it? Can you set your own phrases for every order or they have "premade" ones? In that case, it's very bitchy about the pronunciation?

Yes, you can script any commands you wish (you basically input text and tie key pressing queue to it)

No, it's based on Microsoft Speech SDK meaning that it can forgive accents quite easily provided you have a more or less good mic.

It's much more comfortable than digging through often terrible OFP menus - as instead of, for example, pressing F2, F3, F5 to select 2nd, 3rd and 5th team members you can just say "two three five" and then "hold fire" to order them to do that action. Ordering your guys to take cover, crouch, board vehicles is much faster and more comfortable this way. I even noticed that missions where you control AI squad were going smoother.

 

[Catalina]

Well the only person I've ever seen using a DS is my 7-year old niece, playing Nintendogs. It's kinda cute when she yells at her DS to make the pixel-doggie do tricks. At least she's not pestering me to play with her anymore. Well spent money.

There's always Phoenix Wright (anime court drama comedy game), you can scream "objection" into the mic.

Or Hey, You Pikachu for Nintendo 64.

 

[GarfunkeL]

I don't think my niece is ready for anime court drama comedy.

 

[Slobbergoat]

There was this console game where you were guiding some chick.

It was a console game though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwcyWN9X3r8

Seanbaby is the only funny person on this whole show goddamnit

 

[Lyric Suite]

ROCK OUT!

What... the... fuck... :shock:

 

[GarfunkeL]

Quite innovative use of DS.

 

[MetalCraze]

Faggotry as a part of game promotions is the new shit.

 

[vazquez595654]

PiLfIuS! is a pain in the ass. You have to train it? Bullshit. The program sucks.

Game Commander 2 is where it's at. Accurate, simple to use, and super fast response. You only have to train the words you use.

http://www.brothersoft.com/games/game-commander-download.html

 

[Suchy]

Gave it a try and it's indeed much better. PiLfIuS uses MS speech recognition engine and you have to train it for general use, game commands are only recognized based on what the text you typed should sound.
GC2 also can work like this, but additionaly you can train your commands and the result is much better.

Too bad the GC site is down and you can't buy/register it. I had to torrent pirated version.

 

[vazquez595654]

My only real gripe with Game Commander 2 though is the reality of its use. While I like the idea of not needing my keyboard for clickity games like Torchlight, the reality is that its much faster and accurate to hit a button on your keyboard then to say a command and hope it's recognized.

Actually, the real issue is my fault. I say things differently at different times during a game. For example, "switch weapon" when I am in town. And, "SWITCHWEAPONSONABITCH" when in the middle of a thousand baddies about to die.

 

[MetalCraze]

Trust me - you'll get killed 10 times in OFP during a hot situation while you'll be trying to select a few specific soldiers in your squad via keyboard and then dig through OFP's menu to give them that order to hit the deck.

With Pilfius I was able to fully concentrate on shooting baddies and not looking at the keyboard checking if I'll press the correct key so I won't break the combo needed to issue a simple order.

 

[Suchy]

Here's Arma2 profile for GC2. Of course you'll need to train your own voice.
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?eimwdxowrhm