Problem with Spirit Box, anyone?

[House_Von_Everec]

Anybody else having problems with the spirit box lately? Played 2 maps yesterday, no spirit box response whatsoever, both games ended up being a spirit box capable ghost (Moroi and Deogen). This morning, played another 3 games, no spirit box replies whatsoever. Tried all 3 tiers of spirit boxes in 3 different maps, multiple attempts (especially 2nd & 3rd try), nothing at all. All 3 games happenend to be spirit-box capable ghosts as well (Onryo, Moroi and Spirit). Kinda screwing up my games and screwing up the whole point of playing Phasmo lol

Anybody else seem to have this problem by any chance? Any feedback?

Thanks
PS: Yes, my mic was on. Yes, the spirit box was capting my voice and questions

[Silver_KSA]

I stopped using the voice with spirit box due to same annoying " Never get response"

I use Text and it's working faaaaar better, try it

[House_Von_Everec]

Ah good idea! Thanks, I'll try it out!

[WolfLink0370]

Was it really picking up your voice responses? Spirit Box has a fail-safe built in where it will automatically ask a question every ten seconds or so, so if you aren't getting any visual feedback (even a failed response) more often than that... then there is actually something wrong with your voice recognition settings somewhere.

Usually when my Spirit Box fails to work, changing the voice recognition from VOSK to Windows may be enough... things like accents might be hard to pick up... but the worst case scenario is that you can use Text like SIlver suggested (although I do not personally recommend it, as you not only lose the ability to move while using the question menu, but it also seems to further mess up future voice recognition attempts once you go back to one of the other two)

Failing that, I've had fairly consistent success in fixing my own issues by tinkering with my Sound Control Panel (this can be opened by right clicking your Taskbars volume display, then opening "Sounds"; it should also be noted that this is a multi-tabbed window, so be sure to cycle over to the 'Recording' tab to find your microphone)
Once that is open and on the correct tab, there should be a few disabled sources that you obviously don't use. Enable one of those temporarily, make that source the default device (and the default communications device for good measure)... hit apply, then put both defaults back to your preferred microphone, re-disable the source you enabled for this little reset, and hit apply again.

This all aside, one also has to keep in mind that the T1 spirit box will only actually answer a question 33% of the time, with the higher tiers respectively giving a 50% and 67% response rate instead (this parameter information can be found/viewed in-game within the shop/equipment UI, among other things like its effective range)... so it may take awhile even if everything is working properly.

Finally, the games Official Trello alludes that they may will changing the underlying voice system from Photon Voice to Vivox Voice Chat... likely launching alongside Point Hope Lighthouse (although this is an assumption on my part) - however, this might simply be a change so that the system will be compatible with the upcoming console ports, and thus it may have no bearing at all on the overall quality of the voice recognition going forward.

[steventirey]

Are you using the box properly? You have to have the lights off in the room, and while you can sometimes be with someone else and get a response other times you must be alone in the room.

[McGoodGreen]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Silver_KSA:

I stopped using the voice with spirit box due to same annoying " Never get response"

I use Text and it's working faaaaar better, try it

Exactly this. I spam click all three responses like crazy and Spirit Box pops pretty dang fast, if its there.

Ursprünglich geschrieben von steventirey:

Are you using the box properly? You have to have the lights off in the room, and while you can sometimes be with someone else and get a response other times you must be alone in the room.

this is another really good thought! People I talk to often don't realize lights must be off and that some ghosts get shy with more than one person in the room.

[JJBandit]

just in case your headset is logitech, uninstall the ghub (or what ever the software that comes with it is).

I had no end of issues, until i uninstalled it , and it work better than ever now.

[underscores222]

There's a lot of things to check about spirit box before calling it a bug. Some have already asked these questions above.

Firstly, it sounds like you're not new to this, but just to cover the basics - you had the lights in the room off when you were trying to use the box?
What tier were you using? T1 has a much smaller response range (you have to be closer to the ghost) and a much lower response rate (only responds 20% of the time or something dumb like that). Also, the T1 visual indicator (white light) is a bit harder to interpret if it actually understood your question. T2 box with the X indicator is very nice for that.

And finally, were you asking where the ghost was? This is pretty important because the ghost isn't always in its favorite room. Again, it seems like you aren't new to this so I'm going to assume you've got the basics covered, but it's important to do the spirit box around recent interactions for the best success chance.

[LordSapphic]

Yeah i had problems with the spiritbox on Willow Street and issues with the thermometer in all the games I played yesterday. When we had ghosts with freezing temps it wouldn't show up on the thermometer, even after waiting and trying over and over again. Same with the spiritbox (on professional). We tried it like 5 separate times for a minute or so, alone and together... nothing. Yet the ghost was a spirit.

[House_Von_Everec]

Thank you all, much appreciated! I've got almost 200 hours on Phasmo, so I've got a pretty good idea how the spirit box works, when to use it and make sure it's picking up my voice.

However, it does seem clear after reading you all that it may be a number of different other things as well.

I swirched to text input with the apirit box and haven't had trouble ever since!

Thanks again!

[Oecy666]

Wow

[ExtremelyDecentWill [TTV]]

Wait what the heck? How do you use text input on the spirit box?

[Cool Cereal]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von McMoogle:

Wait what the heck? How do you use text input on the spirit box?

In settings under voice recognition mode

[Knee]

I use AI generated voices to ask my questions for me with a soundboard and the clarity of the voice usually works every time I should be getting a response (in the right spot and the ghost is willing)

[coalaa]

yea

[Ozone]

The spirit box doesn't seem to work properly anymore.
That, or the DOTS are considered as a light-source.