Voice Attack Users

[Valis]

Care to share any neat tricks you use?
Personally i have a few i like. Such as,
"launch" which will launch my ship and retract my gear with one command, (without a docking computer)
"Docking Request"
"Exit Game"
"Open System/Galaxy Map"
"Deploy/Retract Hard Points"
"Night Vision On/Off"
And so on...
VLC Player is also awesome, I have loads of play lists, with full control,
Pause, resume, next/previous track, volume up/down, Play AC/DC, Play Pink Floyd ect...
For those that dont use it, you really should.

[Liduska77]

I bought the Amy voice from Ivona about 3 years ago. I just Googled Ivona and was looking at a screen saying Ivona has been replaced by Amazon Polly, whatever that is. Bit sad. Voices sound ok though, but I would listen to a few before deciding. Paid voices are always better than free. My Amy voice was 22 pound, which is about 600 Koronas.

Any voice will do, it's a personal choice, but the good thing with Amy is that it's the same voice used for the Astra voice packs, just less robotic sounding. Some prefer a male voice, I prefer an English sounding female voice. Funny, cos I'm Scottish..

Google text to speech voices for my pc, look and listen, buy it, download it, apply to the pc and it'll be available to use with text to speech in voice attack.

[ferus]

Originally posted by Liduska77:

I bought the Amy voice from Ivona about 3 years ago. I just Googled Ivona and was looking at a screen saying Ivona has been replaced by Amazon Polly, whatever that is. Bit sad. Voices sound ok though, but I would listen to a few before deciding. Paid voices are always better than free. My Amy voice was 22 pound, which is about 600 Koronas.

Any voice will do, it's a personal choice, but the good thing with Amy is that it's the same voice used for the Astra voice packs, just less robotic sounding. Some prefer a male voice, I prefer an English sounding female voice. Funny, cos I'm Scottish..

Google text to speech voices for my pc, look and listen, buy it, download it, apply to the pc and it'll be available to use with text to speech in voice attack.

Cheers, I will look into it as soon as I get back from holiday.

I quite like the TTS voice Hazel (default for W10 UK language pack) but I wouldn’t mind something different after a while.
Good thing is that I can swap these voices anytime and just update the VA profiles accordingly.


On a side note - if there was a GlaDos voice pack available (or at least a TTS voice) I wouldn’t hesitate one second to buy it :)

Anyway, I think I have all the info for now. Thanks again.

[Liduska77]

Happy to help.

Any further queries, (from anyone), and I'll try to answer.

[Valis]

Originally posted by Liduska77:

Originally posted by Valis:

Well iv got Eddi installed, got to say it's pretty damn cool. Iv had to disable quite a few things, she never shuts up! As far as writing my own scripts, that may be a bit beyond me.
But it's a very cool edition to VA.

Try the EDDI triggers, they're really great. The trigger commands always have (( )) around the command so it doesnt react to voice.

A simple one to start with is putting

((EDDI ship refuelled))

in the when I say box. Then, navigate to say something with text to speech, and type in any response you want to hear when you refuel. Something like Ok, the ship has now been refuelled or similar.

Then go to a station, and refuel. When you click refuel, it should trigger your command to say what you just wrote :) it's that easy.

As an addition, you can name check your ship that you're in by adding

{TXT:Ship name}

So, it would be, in the main box, using say something with text to speech:

Ok, {TXT:Ship name} has now refuelled.

This substitutes the brackets with your ship name ( that you've already put into EDDI using the my info tab), so it sounds good. Change ship and it name checks that one too :)

The triggers are awesome. You'll start to see the potential there hopefully :)

Ok so did the refuel thing, not tried it at a station yet as im traveling back from Colonia, but when I refuel at a star, it just constantly says, "ship fully refuelled" weather I'm fully or partially fuelled. Is there some other part to it?
As for the docking request trigger, that's way above my ability, I don't code at all. Been looking at some YouTube vids though, and there aren't that many unfortunately.

[Liduska77]

Yep.

As you create your triggers, you should go into the speech responder tab on the EDDI program and untick the one that you've made a trigger for. So, untick the fuel one in the speech responder, or it'll tell you all the time, like you've found out :)

When unticked, it should just tell you once, at the end of scooping. If you start to scoop, stop, then restart, you'll trigger your own command twice..

Ok, so you're coming back from Colonia? Try this trigger:

((EDDI jumped))


Then, with text to speech:

After the last jump, we are now in the {TXT:system name} system.

Or, maybe try

This is the {TXT:system name} system


The second one may sound better if the system name is just letters and numbers, which may be the case for you, seeing where you're at ;)

Put a 3 or 4 second pause above that command, so it doesnt trigger absolutely immediately when you have jumped. The pause feels better.

Tell me if it works..

[Valis]

Probably give that ago tomorrow, I have a rare day off work tomorrow, so I'll try then.
Honestly just almost sht my pants, I'm using neutron stars to get back, just jumped in between 2 regular stars, scooping distance of each, and one of them crazy fast neutron stars In front of me, while in VR. Those fast neutron stars in VR scare the crap out of me :)

[Planewalker]

Awesome thread, def bookmarking.

You could actually use WVR+windows voice macros & autohotkey(all free) and tie that into EDDI; there are plenty of possibilities.

Supporting VA might also be nice.

[Valis]

Originally posted by Planewalker:

Supporting VA might also be nice.

Definitely, I don't know why more elite players don't use it, first time I saw it used in elite, I was like, "I need this in my life" I tried the demo and loved it, so I bought it, and for £10 you can't complain. Its a total game changer.
I recommend everyone go and get it.

[Liduska77]

Voice Attack seems to offend some players, reasons are not really given.

Some prob dont want to pay more money, some prob think that it doesnt work right, some think it's too difficult to set up.

But of course, there's no telling them, the ears are shut :)

[ferus]

Are there any events in EDDI for targeting/destroying enemy ships?

I was looking through the documentation of EDDI but I could not find anything.

I would like to set up various responses for “target destroyed” events but at this point I’m not sure it can be done.

[Liduska77]

Not sure about a trigger when something blows up, but you can get info on ships you target. Look at the ship targeted commands, you'll see exactly what info is available, but I dont think there is one that tells you your target is dead.

But you'll need to tweak this one, because there is too much info you can get, and if you're in a CZ or the like, it'll annoy you :) The skill is in setting up a trigger that helps, not annoys.

So, every time I target a ship, all I get is the legal status (clean, wanted) and their skill level. Two words. Nothing else, cos you're going to be targeting a lot in that situation. You can get info on the targets ship, which faction they belong to etc but dont want to hear that there.

If you're cruising around looking to pull over people, adding in more information is useful here. Adjust the info you want to trigger depending on what you're doing, it is all there to be used just how you want it :)

Only when you understand how to use the commands, on that EDDI page with the huge list of things you can access, do you realise how much you can do with EDDI :) Definitely a wow moment.

It's well worth the time having a look and playing with them a bit.

[Liduska77]

https://github.com/EDCD/EDDI/wiki

Scroll down to the blue writing, the list, that has Home then AMFU repairs etc. These are the commands we can use to get info and then execute actions.

[ferus]

Originally posted by Liduska77:

https://github.com/EDCD/EDDI/wiki

Scroll down to the blue writing, the list, that has Home then AMFU repairs etc. These are the commands we can use to get info and then execute actions.

Yes, this is what I was reading through but I saw nothing related to targets.

But I saw from change logs of EDDI that with new versions they are adding new events. So who knows, maybe one day.

All I wanted (for staters) was to set up a bunch of virtual pats on back for destroying a target before I dive into more complicated commands/responses.

I’m starting to think that this will be the second Skyrim - modding and testing far more than actually playing the game :)
But I don’t mind that at all, EDDI+VA looks very promising and powerful.

[Liduska77]

https://github.com/EDCD/EDDI/wiki/Ship-targeted-event

This is the one which gives you info on your target.

((EDDI ship targeted))

Then with text to speech, put in some of the bracketed commands, such as the hull health. Trial and error to see what you like. Then target a ship, and listen to how it sounds. Pick and choose which info you want to hear upon targeting a ship and build the other words around it so it sounds natural.

I'm thinking you'd need to be the one to trigger a response to a dead target. But if you're clever, it can be done nicely.

Example:

You have a closely fought dogfight with another ship, both taking damage, but you win. Quite common.

You say:

[Wow; well; my god] that was [a bit;] close

It says:

Indeed, your hull is [only;] at 40% health. Probably best to land and repair. Shall I open the System or Galaxy map for you?

I need to high wake.

Sure. Galaxy map it is. (opens Galaxy map)

Etc etc

[Valis]

Really loving Eddie, the Eddie.vap has some good stuff in it as well that iv merged with my own profile.
The "Where can I obtain (any given material)" is awesome, it just tells you! And "The shut up" command is also quite useful as she can go one a bit :)