My take on voice activated checklists

[SouthPawPaul]

What a big disappointement.... I really was looking forward to install and tryout your magnificent looking Voice Checklist. Having read all the information and watched all the video's, I was planning to check it out this afternoon. Unfortunately. .. the Dutch installed Windows7 (Home Premium) OS doesn't recognize English speech. The only way to get that changed, I think, is to reinstall Windows7 with English as language

I made a little trip nevertheless and used the analog checklist.

If there's an easier way to get things work, please let me know!

Peter

I'm sorry for your disappointment. Have you tried editing the the first few lines of the checklist (xml) file and changing the English "vcommand" option(s) to the Dutch equivalent? The Checklist would be read to you in English but your response could be in Dutch?

<item name="Pitot tube cover removed" vcommand="Removed,Checked"/> - the section highlighted in mud orange

I'm sorry, but being an arrogant monolinguistic Englishman, I can offer no Dutch alternatives to the English commands; only that which is offered by Google translate and I'm sure they wouldn't be too accurate.

Let us know how your efforts progress.

[rc flyer]

Hi Paul, I watched your videos and gave it whirl. Had a little trouble even though my mike levels seemed OK and it recognized what I was saying, the confidence was pretty low on some phrases in the Debug window. I ended up setting it way down to 70% and it seems OK there. Other than that is works VERY well . Thank you doesn't seem like enough but THANK YOU!! Very gracious also to provide this for free. I see others have already started adapting it to other aircraft . I do have one question for you though, can this be made to show in Full Screen? Only shows text overlays in Windowed Mode for me.

Steve

[SouthPawPaul]

Glad you're enjoying the app.

The overlays only show whilst Fsx is in windowed mode. To display them whilst in full screen mode, I'd have to do some sort of DirectX injection and that is currently beyond the scope of my feature list.

Of course, the app is open source so if someone else would like to code that, they're most welcome.

[Wiqvist]

I seem to have the same problem as Puk. I also got Windows 7 home Premium. The problem seems to be in the speechrecogintion part. Cause when I open that up it tells me:
Windows Talegjenkjenning er ikke tilgjengelig for gjeldende visningsspråk.

Translated by me:
Windows Speechrecognition is not accessible with current viewing Language.

I have tried to find a solution to this but with no success, so if there is anyone who know to change the language in to English without setting up Windows from start. I do not have money now to upgrade Windows and it seems that it is not possible to download and install other Languages in the version of Windows I have. So if any person here are aware of any way to work around this problem and make this program run for me(and also other persons who are not native English speekers).

A funny thing is, that I was looking around at Simmarket, at new add-on's for FSX and then I discovered that Fs2crew had made a Cessna 172 FSX edition, but that program add a lot of things which is already in the A2a's model so it most seems to be a waste of money for me. When I was done at Simmarket I went to this forum and discovered this thread and became more than happy. So now I hope that some of you guys who know a lot more than me about this can come up with a solution. I still hope, hehe.

[SouthPawPaul]

Have tried to set the Culture Type to your region? (It's mislabelled so isn't obvious )



A list of all regions is here if you're not too sure what the cryptic items are:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb896001.aspx

[Puk]

Thanks for the suggestions. I tried it out but it won't work. The problem is that speechrecognition isn't supporting the Dutch language. It does for a few other, like Chinese! , but that will not do either. So it seems that the only solution is to upgrade Windows7 or to reinstall it completely.

Not very eager to do so and a little bit out of frustration, I'm building an application of my own; however not voicecommanded. I still have to mouseclick buttons. If I'm free to use the wav-files from your program, it's a second to best solution.

Further more I'm very curious whether there's a possibility to use my android tablet. I've to check that out later.

Puk

[Wiqvist]

Thank you a lot for trying to help. But the problem is in Windows I think.

In Your post with the download link you also posted two video's, in the first one you open up 'Speechrecognition' from your control panel and there you got a lot of choices to set it up, you choosed headset(in the video). When I open up Speechrecognition I do not have any set up choices, just the message I translated in my above post.

I can start the program and have done the changes in 'option', but when I turn on 'listen' I got an errormessage from Windows Net.

My hope is to find a solution to set 'viewing language' to English without running Windows set up from begining? Hopefully some know a solution for that.

[budmorgan]

I absolutely love this program and I think it will help me become a better pilot. I'm already preparing a script for my special lady to record all of the checklist items!

One question, is it possible to route the audio output to my headset?


Cheers!

Bud

[Lewis - A2A]

I absolutely love this program and I think it will help me become a better pilot. I'm already preparing a script for my special lady to record all of the checklist items!

One question, is it possible to route the audio output to my headset?


Cheers!

Bud

Oh my god thats a damn good idea!

*Shouts downstairs to Emma "Oh honey...."

[rc flyer]

Glad you're enjoying the app.

The overlays only show whilst Fsx is in windowed mode. To display them whilst in full screen mode, I'd have to do some sort of DirectX injection and that is currently beyond the scope of my feature list.

Of course, the app is open source so if someone else would like to code that, they're most welcome.

Yeah, sorta figured something like that or you would've had it working already. Could be an advantage for some who DON'T want to see the text . Thanks again for a great addition to the hobby!

Steve

[SouthPawPaul]

I don't have an answer for your problem with the Microsoft Speech Engine, I am however baking some code that will allow folks to use the checklists without speech. You can assign a KeyBind in the options and use that to progress the checklist.



I hope to have something released either late tomorrow (UK time) or sometime over the weekend.

[SouthPawPaul]

I absolutely love this program and I think it will help me become a better pilot. I'm already preparing a script for my special lady to record all of the checklist items!

One question, is it possible to route the audio output to my headset?


Cheers!

Bud

Not at present no. It currently routes audio to the default playback device. It shouldn't be too difficult to code something in the options though. I'll have a look this weekend.

[Wiqvist]

I don't have an answer for your problem with the Microsoft Speech Engine, I am however baking some code that will allow folks to use the checklists without speech. You can assign a KeyBind in the options and use that to progress the checklist.
I hope to have something released either late tomorrow (UK time) or sometime over the weekend.

Thank you a lot for this.

Will it be something like the default atc, in how to use it?
Like the program read the checklist and I click on 'c' for checked for example?

And a bit of topic:
This thread made me think of a thing. I have stoped getting amazed of how unfriendly so many persons can be at some forum's(not this one of cource), like how quick some judge you as an idiot. But I still get amazed of how friendly and nice flight simulator persons are, like you 'SouthPawPaul', who have created such a great product like this and then give it away for free so other persons can enjoy it. I think you easy could have got money for this program or you could have choosen just to use it Your self. So thank you for making my mind happier.

[airworthy]

One question, is it possible to route the audio output to my headset?

I use a freeware app called SoundSwitch http://soundswitch.codeplex.com/ which allows me to change the default sound output to my headset 'on-the-fly, so the checklists are put through my headset'.
Of course, in FSX the sounds are configurable separately, so I set 'sounds' to the speakers and 'voice' to the headphones'.

Using this method, I get all the FSX sounds through my speakers, ATC and checklists through the headset.

[SouthPawPaul]

I've gone and released v0.2
https://code.google.com/p/voice-activated-checklists/

Hope the video explains the change and also helps get you all going.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vctMiUn8mEc[/youtube]