Voice Commands not working? Click here!

[Feep]

There Came an Echo's voice recognition systems can be very, very accurate, but it does rely on some proper conditions to get it working well. Here are some things to look out for if you're not having much success:

Step 1) Ensure your microphone is plugged in before starting There Came an Echo. The bar on the Voice Calibration screen should be moving when you speak! If it's plugged in but nothing is happening, go to Recording Device settings in Windows and ensure your microphone is set as the Default Device.

Step 2) Ensure you have not enabled push-to-talk! It's currently easy to forget you've done this. If it's enabled, you have to hold down spacebar.

Step 3) If your input volume slider is at 100% but you still aren't getting near the top of the bar, try once again heading over to Recording Device settings in Windows, going into your microphone's properties, and enabling Microsoft Boost to +10 or +20 dB.

Step 4) If you have an accent, flip through the Language setting in the Options menu to see if there's an acoustic model and accent for you! You may also feel more comfortable playing in another language.

Step 5) If you feel that the commands aren't working as well in battle situations, remember to speak smoothly and calmly. Most importantly, do *not* attempt to string together consecutive commands without giving a pause...the recognition system only evaluates a phrase after around 600 ms of silence, and it can't handle two complete commands as one. Make sure you leave a little pause before every command.

Step 6) If you're still having trouble and no commands are being recognized at all, it's possible the VoiceCore component has crashed. In this situation, please look for a file called VoiceCoreErrorLog.txt in the folder Steam/steamapps/common/ThereCameAnEcho, and post its contents here! We might be able to figure out what's wrong and help you.

Thanks for your patience. Getting this system to work was a remarkable technical challenge, and we appreciate you guys even giving a shot in the first place. We'll do what we can to make sure your experience is as smooth as possible! <3

Edit: The Razer Kraken 7.1 and the Logitech G35 and possibly a few other Logitech sets (please let us know if one isn't working for you!) are currently incompatible with TCAE for weird reasons, too. Please use a different headset if possible.

[Bliksem105]

Publicado originalmente por Feep:

@elgato: We're looking into this now. May we have your specs?

Processor Information:
Vendor: GenuineIntel
CPU Family: 0x6
CPU Model: 0x2d
CPU Stepping: 0x7
CPU Type: 0x0
Speed: 3502 Mhz
12 logical processors
6 physical processors
HyperThreading: Supported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Unsupported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported

Network Information:
Network Speed:

Operating System Version:
Windows 7 (64 bit)
NTFS: Supported
Crypto Provider Codes: Supported 311 0x0 0x0 0x0

Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN

DirectX Driver Name: nvd3dum.dll
Driver Version: 9.18.13.4725
DirectX Driver Version: 9.18.13.4725
Driver Date: 9 Jan 2015
OpenGL Version: 4.5
Desktop Color Depth: 32 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 119 Hz
DirectX Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN
VendorID: 0x10de
DeviceID: 0x1005
Number of Monitors: 2
Number of Logical Video Cards: 2
No SLI or Crossfire Detected
Primary Display Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Desktop Resolution: 3840 x 1080
Primary Display Size: 26.65" x 15.00" (30.55" diag)
67.7cm x 38.1cm (77.6cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
Primary VRAM: 6143 MB
Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 8x

Sound card:
Audio device: Speakers (ASTRO Gaming USB MixA

Memory:
RAM: 16321 Mb

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
Microphone: Not set
Media Type: DVD
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 2884109 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 1796356 Mb
OS Install Date: Apr 04 2013
Game Controller: XInput Controller #1 detected

[Feep]

I'll mark that down in the "good" category for now. = D

[mulatdood]

I want the game to recognize [name] -> [on my mark] -> [command]. I almost gave up on the misson where you had to snipe two people at once since this wasn't working. I'm happy I didn't, I really enjoyed the game. But at that time I was close to thinking the voice recongintion was broken.

[Feep]

The more combinations there are, the lower the quality of the voice recognition. We found that a lot of people wanted on my mark up front, and a lot in the back, but very few in the middle like that...adding that would increase the number of possible commands by a full 50%.

We have to make numerous tough decisions regarding which words, phrases, and orders to keep. Our apologies for that.

[Mike007]

Hi!

I'm having trouble getting the voice recognition working at all and id love som help - as i think this is a fantastic game (as ive seen on youtube :)

Heres me issue:

- I have never had a voice command recognised. I can get the voice bar moviung up and down, and confirm my mic is working in device manager and by talking with friends over steam chat, but not one command works including war room, holding PTT, disabling PTT etc
- Ive tried every possible voice setting and level with no luck
- ive restarted multiple times after changing settings etc
- there is no voicelogerror.txt file in the directory
- Tried manually installing the english AU sound files from the acoustics folder

what i havnt tried:

-reinstalling the game

Thanks for your help

Mike.

[Sayonara]

Hi Mike, have you tried the following?

Disable push-to-talk. Exit and restart the game, go straight into the audio calibration and see whether it recognises "Loud and clear".

Does it make a 'beep..... bop' when you press and release push-to-talk? (When it's enabled, of course.) A few times, mine didn't, still haven't worked out the cause of it since it just started working again.

If you're getting the beeps, try it (with PTT enabled) then exit and check the contents of steamapps\common\There Came an Echo\ThereCameanEcho_Data. Are you seeing something like this:

(Filename: C:/BuildAgent/work/d63dfc6385190b60/artifacts/StandalonePlayerGenerated/UnityEngineDebug.cpp Line: 49)

Sending - holdtrigger
 
(Filename: C:/BuildAgent/work/d63dfc6385190b60/artifacts/StandalonePlayerGenerated/UnityEngineDebug.cpp Line: 49)

Data Received: !Failed - Confidence Level 0.6027287
 
(Filename: C:/BuildAgent/work/d63dfc6385190b60/artifacts/StandalonePlayerGenerated/UnityEngineDebug.cpp Line: 49)

Sending - releasetrigger
 
(Filename: C:/BuildAgent/work/d63dfc6385190b60/artifacts/StandalonePlayerGenerated/UnityEngineDebug.cpp Line: 49)

In particular, are there "!Failed" lines? -- if so, it means it's picking you up but can't work out what you said. If you just see "Sending - holdtrigger" / "Sending - releasetrigger" with nothing in between, it means (I think) that the recognition isn't even running.

Bear in mind this is just based on troubleshooting for my own problems, so maybe your problem is something completely different.

[Danisimo]

Literally just started the game and the voice core keeps crashing every time I run it.

in mission 0

System.IO.IOException: The handle is invalid.

at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
at System.Console.set_OutputEncoding(Encoding value)
at VoiceCore.Program.Main(String[] args)

This is the error log. I'm running on win 7 64 bit.
I'm not a native speaker but I tested my mic with the built in windows speech recognition software and it's definitely not me. I can dictate to my computer with around 90% accuracy without any previous calibration. Assistance would be appreciated.
EDIT: I'm using the English US setting. I've been told I have a "neutral" accent but personal experience has shown me that speech recognition software works best when I set it to EN(US).

[Feep]

This is a strange error we've never seen before. Do you have any out of the ordinary firewalls or antivirus programs running? Also, certain headset drivers have been causing issues...if you have another headset, I would recommend trying it out as well.

Weird.

[Danisimo]

I only have microsoft security essentials and the firewall is off.

I'm using a cheap Philips headset that doesn't come with any custom drivers(like the fancy gaming ones) but so far I've been using it about a year with no issues I find it very strange that it might conflict with the game. Unfortunately I don't think there's anything else I can use unless old HTC earplugs count. :D

[Haroon]

Hello Feep, I have been trying to get this game to recognize me. It recognizes the fact that I am using the microphone (the bar moves), but it does not recognize the fact that I am saying Loud and Clear.

This is the error that I am getting in the error log:

in mission 0

System.ArgumentException: No recognizer of the required ID found. ---> System.InvalidOperationException: Cannot find the requested data item, such as a data key or value.
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at Microsoft.Speech.Recognition.SpeechRecognitionEngine.Initialize(RecognizerInfo recognizerInfo)
at Microsoft.Speech.Recognition.SpeechRecognitionEngine..ctor(CultureInfo culture)
at VoiceCore.Program.mInitializeSpeechEngine()
at VoiceCore.Program.Main(String[] args)

[Feep]

@Atsou: It looks like the required speech recognizers were not properly installed when Steam went through the auto-instllation process. You can try reinstalling the game, or you could manually install them. They're found at steam/steamapps/common/ThereCameAnEcho/AcousticModels.

@Danisimo: If you could try the weird earbuds just to test "loud and clear", that would help ascertain if the problem is indeed stemming from the headset drivers themselves. We *have* had limited issues with driver support that we're trying to work through.

We did find this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/830297, but it seems that they want you to contact them directly for a hotfix? This is an extremely strange error. If there are any irregular settings you've taken in your Windows installation or configuration, you should let us know to help us track down a solution.

[Mike007]

Hi Sayonara

Thanks for your help !

- Yes it makes the beep...bop' sounds, but i dont think its being acknoweldged with PTT on or not. Should something happen when 'Lound and clear' is succesfully heared? ie, a 'we read you' or the icon changes red etc? im starting to feel a bit stupid saying this word over and over again with no idea what should happen ;D

- I tried what you mentioned and found a .txt files called 'output_log' in the folder you mentioned, but nothing about fails etc showed up - is this where i should be looking? i cant find any other .txt files in the whole games directory, so i just assumed it was this one. I have no idea what any of it means, should i paste the data in here?

- Overall it seem that the program can hear me, but maybe cant understand what im saying at all - ive tried mucking around with my headset settings , - ie, db levels - but to no avail

Any ideas?

Thanks again for your help guys.

Mike

Publicado originalmente por Sayonara:

Hi Mike, have you tried the following?

Disable push-to-talk. Exit and restart the game, go straight into the audio calibration and see whether it recognises "Loud and clear".

Does it make a 'beep..... bop' when you press and release push-to-talk? (When it's enabled, of course.) A few times, mine didn't, still haven't worked out the cause of it since it just started working again.

If you're getting the beeps, try it (with PTT enabled) then exit and check the contents of steamapps\common\There Came an Echo\ThereCameanEcho_Data. Are you seeing something like this:

(Filename: C:/BuildAgent/work/d63dfc6385190b60/artifacts/StandalonePlayerGenerated/UnityEngineDebug.cpp Line: 49)

Sending - holdtrigger
 
(Filename: C:/BuildAgent/work/d63dfc6385190b60/artifacts/StandalonePlayerGenerated/UnityEngineDebug.cpp Line: 49)

Data Received: !Failed - Confidence Level 0.6027287
 
(Filename: C:/BuildAgent/work/d63dfc6385190b60/artifacts/StandalonePlayerGenerated/UnityEngineDebug.cpp Line: 49)

Sending - releasetrigger
 
(Filename: C:/BuildAgent/work/d63dfc6385190b60/artifacts/StandalonePlayerGenerated/UnityEngineDebug.cpp Line: 49)

In particular, are there "!Failed" lines? -- if so, it means it's picking you up but can't work out what you said. If you just see "Sending - holdtrigger" / "Sending - releasetrigger" with nothing in between, it means (I think) that the recognition isn't even running.

Bear in mind this is just based on troubleshooting for my own problems, so maybe your problem is something completely different.

[Feep]

If "loud and clear" is recognized, the little LED lights should turn blue and you should get a nice sound effect confirming the recognition.

Like Sayonara mentioned, I recommend grabbing the output_log.txt and sending it my way, to [e-mail]! I can hopefully assist more from there.

[DanielZX]

I have this problem. It won't recognize my voice at all eventhough the bar is moving everytime I talk.
so here is my error log.
in mission 0

System.ArgumentException: No recognizer of the required ID found. ---> System.InvalidOperationException: Cannot find the requested data item, such as a data key or value.
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at Microsoft.Speech.Recognition.SpeechRecognitionEngine.Initialize(RecognizerInfo recognizerInfo)
at Microsoft.Speech.Recognition.SpeechRecognitionEngine..ctor(CultureInfo culture)
at VoiceCore.Program.mInitializeSpeechEngine()
at VoiceCore.Program.Main(String[] args)

[Feep]

@Sakurai: It looks like the required speech recognizers were not properly installed when Steam went through the auto-installation process. You can try reinstalling the game, or you could manually install them. They're found at steam/steamapps/common/ThereCameAnEcho/AcousticModels.

Make sure en-US is installed!