Linux Voice recognition

[Gandalf]

Hello, the game works perfect on linux (Proton) except for one thing: Voice recognition doesn't work.
It seems as it uses voice recognition from Cortana and there's no support for that in there. Has anyone found a workaround for that?

[sa6o90]

I don't think there is a workaround and I'm not sure that it will be anytime soon.
It's really hard to make a voice recognition algorithm, so that's why they are using the Micosoft's one.
Our only hope is that the author would give some love for Linux users and found out some MS voice recognition replacement for us.

P.S: I'm boot up to Win just to play this game. Didn't boot it with months lol. :D

[Gandalf]

Originally posted by sa6o90:

I don't think there is a workaround and I'm not sure that it will be anytime soon.
It's really hard to make a voice recognition algorithm, so that's why they are using the Micosoft's one.
Our only hope is that the author would give some love for Linux users and found out some MS voice recognition replacement for us.

P.S: I'm boot up to Win just to play this game. Didn't boot it with months lol. :D

yeah I thought of doing that or trying my luck on a vm with accelerated graphics, maybe in the future there'll be a workaround or the devs move to a different voice recognition api that's not linked with the SO

[BlackMetalViking]

https://omgfoss.com/open-source-speech-recognition-tools-linux/ Tons of alternative voice recognition software for Linux

[Gandalf]

Originally posted by Minty-Linux:

https://omgfoss.com/open-source-speech-recognition-tools-linux/ Tons of alternative voice recognition software for Linux

It would be great if the devs moved from the Cortana one to one that's not binded to the SO. That being said, the issue with those things often is that they lack support for most languages and even if they do support a language, it's not polished enough. Maybe wine can be tweaked to translate cortana calls to some of those softwares or the devs could add the option to switch between cortana and an embeded speech recognition tool.

[OutermostGhost]

You say voice recognition doesn't work. Does in game voice chat work? Or is the problem solely with the spirit box reacting?

[Gandalf]

Originally posted by folclor:

You say voice recognition doesn't work. Does in game voice chat work? Or is the problem solely with the spirit box reacting?

voice chat works, the problem is solely with the voice recognition (which is used for the spirit box) 'cause the feature used is bundled with Windows 10 Cortana. That's why it doesn't work for previous Windows either. Hope the solution for previous windows will be moving to a different API that's not bundled to an OS

[DASPRiD]

It would be nice if the game could (alternatively?) use a built-in voice recognition library.

So right now the game is using UnityEngine.Windows.Speech, which relies on Cortana. An alternative might be using one of these instead:

https://bitbucket.org/Unity-Technologies/speech-to-text/src/master/

[Ezekiel]

Using another voice recognition would be cool, I also wanted to play it under Proton

[nenoro]

Can we install any linoox voice recognition or only cortana is needed ?

[Stonegrove]

Bumping this. The developer has mentioned that he wants to add a fallback API so that Windows 7/8.1 users can enjoy the game the same way. I guess this also implies Linux support of some kind.

[Gandalf]

Originally posted by 7R:

Bumping this. The developer has mentioned that he wants to add a fallback API so that Windows 7/8.1 users can enjoy the game the same way. I guess this also implies Linux support of some kind.

Exactly, if the feature is not attached to the OS then there should be no problem, I doubt there are many alternative services as accurate as cortana. Maybe English only? That would be a good alternative though

[corpseman89]

There are many open source speech recognition solutions. They could add
https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/
or something similar right into the game.

[corpseman89]

As someone seriously considering the Steam Deck for travel, I'm trying to migrate gaming to linux only.

[Karmotti]

Originally posted by corpseman89:

As someone seriously considering the Steam Deck for travel, I'm trying to migrate gaming to linux only.

This thread is almost 1 year old lol