Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I was talking with a few guys from my corp earlier, and we got in on the subject on the new inventory system, as well as how everything has been moved around button-wise as well as removing buttons completely and put it into the inventory UI etc.

As we talked, we talked about possible solutions, and was then mentioned, why not have a voice recognition system in place for opening different UI elements such as the, calculator, wallet, contracts, etc.


Atleast I found it highly confusing after returning to EVE having everything moved around, I didden't even realize that there was a button ontop of my portrait, that I could click to get access to the calculator or notes, and certainly also thought this makes it somewhat more confusing on the newer player ?

Anyway, having a voice recognition in place not only helps freeing up space on buttons, it could potentially also be faster for the person who is looking around for the different elements of the EVE UI to get it showing instead of having to sit 10 minutes to actually figure out where the thing you are looking for is (exaggeration is used here obviously).

Just so it doesn't fire off everytime you actually say something, there could be a specific button on the keyboard/mouse that could otherwise trigger the feature.

For those with a foreign accent who otherwise might have a difficult time actually pronounce different english words, I suppose you could put a system in place (later on maybe ?) where as the player decides what to say to open up an element of the UI, that you'd avoid this specific problem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR90Lzep2QE

EDIT: sorry for typos

Have you ever used voice recognition on anything? I doubt it because if you had you'd know how unreliable it is.

Nice idea although considering the varied accents and languages used by the player base it seems something of a massive effort for very little real gain.