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"Aura, Align to target!" Voice Commands in Eve Client?
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Berluth Luthian
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2013-05-22 20:19:58 UTC  |  Edited by: Berluth Luthian
Found an add-on to the speech recognition program that comes with windows. I was curious if it would be against the EULA to be able to program macros that would perform 'at least' keyboard shortcuts?

How awesome would it be if you could say "set destination...J-I-T-A...confirm". Then during battle you could give Aura commands to 'align to target' to ready your escape. Basically you could let it help to do some actions for you that takes some extra clicking...?

You could make it get a little more complicated ofc. I'm not sure if, for example, making a macro that could auto-input d-scan ranges for near/far or wide or narrow angles would be technically allowed...

Imagine...

"Aura, pulse my microwarpdrive" would turn the mwd on/off.

"Aura, launch drones...engage target"

"Aura, jam target" would press the hotkey where you keep your ECM

"Aura, evasive maneuvers" would engage/overheat your prop module slot, set your orbit to 50km, and set max velocity.
Shade Alidiana
PROSPERO Corporation
#2 - 2013-05-22 20:47:08 UTC
Nice thing about voice, I like it. Already imagined lots of situations where it would look perfectly fine.
Rayzilla Zaraki
Yin Jian Enterprises
#3 - 2013-05-23 00:34:56 UTC
Berluth Luthian wrote:


"Aura, pulse my microwarpdrive"



Heh....

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Kid Moxie
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#4 - 2013-05-25 02:19:54 UTC
While it would be slower than hotkeys, you definitely get to feel awesome.
Kirimeena D'Zbrkesbris
Republic Military Tax Avoiders
#5 - 2013-05-25 03:09:20 UTC  |  Edited by: Kirimeena D'Zbrkesbris
IIRC there was a thread about it some time ago.

Found it:
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2988052#post2988052

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Shade Alidiana
PROSPERO Corporation
#6 - 2013-05-27 05:37:44 UTC
So this isn't a pleasant idea for most players? What a pity.
Lair Osen
#7 - 2013-05-27 05:42:18 UTC
Just need to replace Aura with R2D2 :P
Caldari 5
D.I.L.L.I.G.A.F. S.A.S
Affirmative.
#8 - 2013-05-27 05:52:46 UTC
Now imagine using voice control on multiple PCs at the same time, Aura, undock, confirm (all of your Mackinaws undock at the same time) :)
(each PC has no Automation Software, just voice recognition, with a bundle of mics that look like a bunch of flowers in front of you)
El Geo
Warcrows
#9 - 2013-05-27 09:19:41 UTC  |  Edited by: El Geo
Caldari 5 wrote:
Now imagine using voice control on multiple PCs at the same time, Aura, undock, confirm (all of your Mackinaws undock at the same time) :)
(each PC has no Automation Software, just voice recognition, with a bundle of mics that look like a bunch of flowers in front of you)


People are allowed to use multiboxing software, so not really any difference there.

+1 for voice recognition, it would be awesome for shortcuts (full speed, stop, set destination etc)

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Claire Raynor
NovaGear
#10 - 2013-05-27 09:52:52 UTC  |  Edited by: Claire Raynor
Would make fleet comms interesting!!!
Plus 1 from me! But It'd need a lot of tweeking - Especially if your fleet of ships are all different like all mine!

It could go very Red Dwarf. ..

Me - "Aura - Jam Target"
Aura on Box 1 (Blackbird) - "Rgr"
Aura on Box 2 (Rapier) - "Errr. . . "
Aura on Box 3 (Cheetah) - "That'd be stoopid. . . "
Aura on Box 4 (Rifter) - "No. . . "
Aura on Box 5 (Exquorer) - "You want me to jam our Rifter? OK. . . "
Me - "Aura - err no - Stop?"
Aura on Box 4 (Rifter) - "Aura 5 - WTF are you doing???"
Aura on Box 5 (Exquorer) - "Following orders"
>>Target Warps
Aura on Box 2 (Rapier) - "Why were there jammers on the Logi?"
Aura on Box 3 (Cheetah) - "Lame" selects corp -> quit
Aura on Box 1 (Blackbird) - "Why can't Claire spell?"
Me - "Sh1t!!!!!!!"
Aura on Box 1,2,4,5 (ships) - "Really? OK"
>>All ships start rubbing up to one another
Shade Alidiana
PROSPERO Corporation
#11 - 2013-05-27 14:06:49 UTC
That's just perfectLol

I don't think this could be an issue, since you only need to form commands more clearly (and I really really want a more lively Aura...)
Berluth Luthian
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#12 - 2013-05-30 13:13:23 UTC
Kirimeena D'Zbrkesbris wrote:
IIRC there was a thread about it some time ago.

Found it:
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2988052#post2988052


I think I saw this. I'm going to try the macro program and see how it goes this weekend. I don't know if I like the response thing that he's got.
DSpite Culhach
#13 - 2013-05-30 13:43:32 UTC
I was given a 60 day account for WoW by a mate a rather long while ago. For a lark, I went full voice control from day 1 (I of course had to use Kb/mouse, I just mean I frakked around for 60 days with voice stuff)

Since I have a G15, I stacked multiple key presses - which the WoW people frown upon Lol - under a single voice macro, so I could yell "sik em" and my pig would charge up, and attack my target. I had "next" and a few chained gun attacks perfectly timed on other voice commands, call inventory, etc etc.

I was using Game Commander 2 back then (also used it in Mech Warrior, as I had "Alpha" for "Alpha Strike" under a voice command), I have also used this http://www.oatsoft.org/Software/shoot but not in quite a while.

I think it would be trivial to use for EVE, but since I own a MSC, and have finally found Windows 7 drivers for it, I use that in certain situations.

I apparently have no idea what I'm doing.
Arle Vox
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#14 - 2013-05-30 14:56:49 UTC
Kid Moxie wrote:
While it would be slower than hotkeys, you definitely get to feel awesome.


^This is true. Hotkeys are much faster than saying anything.

Also, from a systems standpoint, enabling this sort of feature would increase the CPU demand of EVE whenever you use a voice command. Your system would have to record to memory your voice, and test your command against commands the client has stored to see which command is valid.

Also, the examples you gave are complex functions, things like "pulse microwarp drive" is a new function to a macro that would need to be added.


This is a cool idea, and it would help to immerse the player in the Eve environment, but it's not really realistic because hotkeys ARE faster, and this would create added strain to the CPU unnecessarily.
Berluth Luthian
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#15 - 2013-05-30 15:48:03 UTC
Arle Vox wrote:
Kid Moxie wrote:
While it would be slower than hotkeys, you definitely get to feel awesome.


^This is true. Hotkeys are much faster than saying anything.

Also, from a systems standpoint, enabling this sort of feature would increase the CPU demand of EVE whenever you use a voice command. Your system would have to record to memory your voice, and test your command against commands the client has stored to see which command is valid.

Also, the examples you gave are complex functions, things like "pulse microwarp drive" is a new function to a macro that would need to be added.


This is a cool idea, and it would help to immerse the player in the Eve environment, but it's not really realistic because hotkeys ARE faster, and this would create added strain to the CPU unnecessarily.


pulse microwarp drive would just be a command that pushes your hotkey for your MWD, twice. As far as commands go it wouldn't be difficult. But you are right, I'm going to pull up the dictation app and see how much processor it is demanding. I'm wondering though if Eve is as intensive on the CPU as the GPU, my guess is that it isn't, but I'm sure you guys know much better than I.
Maximus Aerelius
PROPHET OF ENIGMA
#16 - 2013-05-30 16:03:48 UTC
Claire Raynor wrote:
Would make fleet comms interesting!!!
Plus 1 from me! But It'd need a lot of tweeking - Especially if your fleet of ships are all different like all mine!

It could go very Red Dwarf. ..

Me - "Aura - Jam Target"
Aura on Box 1 (Blackbird) - "Rgr"
Aura on Box 2 (Rapier) - "Errr. . . "
Aura on Box 3 (Cheetah) - "That'd be stoopid. . . "
Aura on Box 4 (Rifter) - "No. . . "
Aura on Box 5 (Exquorer) - "You want me to jam our Rifter? OK. . . "
Me - "Aura - err no - Stop?"
Aura on Box 4 (Rifter) - "Aura 5 - WTF are you doing???"
Aura on Box 5 (Exquorer) - "Following orders"
>>Target Warps
Aura on Box 2 (Rapier) - "Why were there jammers on the Logi?"
Aura on Box 3 (Cheetah) - "Lame" selects corp -> quit
Aura on Box 1 (Blackbird) - "Why can't Claire spell?"
Me - "****!!!!!!!"
Aura on Box 1,2,4,5 (ships) - "Really? OK"
>>All ships start rubbing up to one another


LOL'd at work! Looked like a nutter! Damn funny and damn cute too Claire Raynor.

As for Voice Commands...get rid of this PTT malarkey and get with the 21st Century first for goodness sake. We have speech recognition\voice activated mics on our headsets that start broadcasting what we say when we do it and stop when we don't...why doesn't the client have that as an option? For the times you don't want to be heard: Well there's the local mute button you can press on the headset\sound options\somewhere.

Just my thoughts before EVE runs away with using Voice Commands it needs to get basic comms right. Using your hand to press a key to talk (Push-To-Talk AKA PTT) is inefficient and in some cases damn right dangerous.

Just my thoughts.

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Alec Freeman
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#17 - 2013-05-30 16:39:07 UTC
As a Scotsman I imagine this would end something like this for me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAz_UvnUeuU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Bienator II
madmen of the skies
#18 - 2013-05-30 17:01:43 UTC
Aura, ragequit

how to fix eve: 1) remove ECM 2) rename dampeners to ECM 3) add new anti-drone ewar for caldari 4) give offgrid boosters ongrid combat value
Arle Vox
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#19 - 2013-05-30 18:00:21 UTC
Berluth Luthian wrote:

pulse microwarp drive would just be a command that pushes your hotkey for your MWD, twice. As far as commands go it wouldn't be difficult. But you are right, I'm going to pull up the dictation app and see how much processor it is demanding. I'm wondering though if Eve is as intensive on the CPU as the GPU, my guess is that it isn't, but I'm sure you guys know much better than I.


Dictation apps most use a foreign computer to do processing on a compressed sound file remotely, so your computer really doesn't do any processing in most cases.

Dragon dictation used to release a software that you would need to read a bunch of stuff so the program could identify your voice. It was very large and quite CPU intensive. There are applications now that use Google's servers or Dragon's server to interpret your voice on the fly and send back results over the internet.
Felsusguy
Panopticon Engineering
#20 - 2013-05-30 19:58:26 UTC
Aura is just a voice, man, she can't do jackschnit.

That said, I support the idea, but I don't want to call out to "Aura" while I'm having my evegasms.

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