Voice recognition products

[dswanson]

Hi,

Just upgraded PC to 64bit and Win 7 and have had to say goodbye to my trusty Game Commander voice recognition software as it's incompatible with Win 7

Anybody using anything else that works and is Win 7 compatible ??

I'm finding reverting to keyboard after 10 years of speaking commands an unwelcome experience

[DarrenL]

Have you had a look at the FS2Crew products, is that the kind of thing you are after?

http://www.fs2crew.com/cart/ FS9 and FSX products

I haven't. I'd feel very embarrassed to be talking to my PC at home, I shout at it enough at the best of times

[DaveB]

Good grief Degsy.. you've certainly had your monies worth out of it. I've not used Game Commander since FS2000 Never bothered with it again when ProFlight2000 didn't work with FS2002

ATB
DaveB

[dswanson]

Thanks for the responses.

Dave - yes I have and miss it terribly !!

Darren - thanks for the suggestion. I looked at the products and they seem to come from a different angle, including virtual voices of the crew and also tailored to different specific aircraft, so not really what I want. GC enabled you to specify a spoken command and link that to user-defined keystroke combinations. Very clever !!

I'll keep looking for other options

[TSR2]

I think Dragon Naturally speaking does that, but its very expensive! Does the built in Win7 stuff not allow you to do that?

[Effoh]

Hi Degsy,

Is this purely for Flightsim, or do you need something that does other stuff as well?

Rgds,

Colin

[emfrat]

A few years back, when the Toys-for-Granpa Fund was extra-healthy, I bought as a bundle, TrackIR and VoiceBuddy+Headset.
Still use TIR from time to time, but like DarrenL, I felt the combination of silly hat, headset, and talking to my computer was a tad undignified for a person of my age and ancestry
Product info here:
http://www.edimensional.com/index.php?cPath=23
Review (of v2) here:
http://www.avsim.com/pages/0205/vb2/vb2.htm
VB v3 seems even more flexible. Like all voice recognition stuff, you need to teach it to recognise your particular accent, but it works well. Apart from adding a measure of 'reality' to simming, it would also greatly benefit someone with limited use of their hands (eg arthritis or RSI sufferers)

Hope this helps

MikeW

[dswanson]

Hi,

Thanks for the replies.

It is just for flight sim

I looked at the Win 7 tool but I can't see any clear means of associating applications for the commands

Voice Buddy looks the most promising but I need confirmation that it's Win7 compatible. Vista is mentioned

Feeling silly talking to the PC was never a problem as my "cockpit" is in the upstairs box room and my family got used to it . My biggest snag was when the kids screamed Daaaaaad from downstairs, when gear, flaps, tailhook etc. could be triggered, usually at a critical point on finals

[Effoh]

Hi Degsy

There a couple of freeware applications on AVSIM - I searched under 'voice command'

Payware there's -

It's Your Plane - http://www.itsyourplane.com/ - there's a free demo to download and try before purchase.

Voice Activated Commands http://www.dwvac.com/

Multi-Crew Experience http://www.multicrewxp.com/ - free demo

Rgds,


Colin