Issuing Voice Commands to Your NPC Squad in ArmA

[sfscriv]

The Non-Player Characters (NPCs) in your squad can be controlled using voice commands.

Added this so you do not have to bounce around the forum to configure the Voice AI commands:

Mar 31, 2013 12:11:46 GMT 1 sfscriv said:

[tazimafied]

That's killer. Can't wait to try it out.

[rache14]

That was very impressive.

[PhoenixKsE]

Does this voice command ability come with Arma 3, or is it some kind of mod?


Edit: Figured it out. It is a mod, and here's the info:

www.dwvac.com/

www.armaholic.com/forums.php?m=posts&q=11956

"Sometimes reading the description of the video you are watching helps, Phoenix."

- all of you

[pershainovitsh]

Last time I saw voice commands in a game was Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 and the demo for Binary Domain. The first was on Xbox 360, the latter one for PC (a horrible console port). In my experiences, it didn't work. When I was telling my team mates to be stealthy, they would rush in to the next room with guns blazing. Etc. The voice recognition just didn't work in those games. Thankfully you could issue orders to the Rainbow team with the controller.

Binary Domain was ambitious: you could praise the team mates for success or curse at them if they were doing bad. But it didn't work really well either. I couldn't get the game to recognise half the words it was supposed to, but I guess I should be an English aristocrat with perfect pronounciation for it to understand. Interestingly, you could say "I love you" to any team mate, which it would recognise most of the time. It wasn't useful, but it was pretty amusing for a while. The team mates could also lose their trust on you for example if you fired at them too many times, and ignore orders. The enemies were robots, and you could shoot their body parts off. A robot without legs is stil dangerous. Sadly it turned out to be a pretty bad game.

For the little while I followed the Arma 3 video, voice commands seemed to work well. That should help to get immersed in the game.

[psyco6]

In the SOCOM games it was very spotty.
When it worked it was fun to use.Maybe it is improved?

[sfscriv]

Atacking using VAC:


Not sure how helpful this is:


This is the application of the VAC addition:

[sfscriv]

Apr 12, 2013 16:27:52 GMT 1 pershainovitsh said:

Last time I saw voice commands in a game was Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 and the demo for Binary Domain. ... In my experiences, it didn't work. When I was telling my team mates to be stealthy, they would rush in to the next room with guns blazing. Etc. The voice recognition just didn't work in those games. Thankfully you could issue orders to the Rainbow team with the controller.

...I guess I should be an English aristocrat with perfect pronounciation for it to understand...

The voice recognition industry-wide has had a long development period. For over a decade, it has been utter crap. It was absolutely not worth the effort no matter how well you pronounced english.

I am, however, impressed with the ArmA 3 integration. Well, at least the first video I watched. The NPCs seem to respond really well. It is to the point that I would even like to try it.

[psyco6]

I find when I give one to the girlfriend to clean the house.
She won't obey might need a patch?

[PhoenixKsE]

psycho this is a known issue, and we're working on an update.

[mcguirk2]

Note: Known issue is still not addressed by installing the "Wife Expansion Pack."

[wobblyone]

Apr 13, 2013 14:08:54 GMT 1 psyco6 said:

I find when I give one to the girlfriend to clean the house.
She won't obey might need a patch?

Steam will automatically patch and update, but if the problem persists

a kick up the ass might do the trick ;D

[PhoenixKsE]

Apr 13, 2013 20:39:53 GMT 1 wobblyone said:

Steam will automatically patch and update, but if the problem persists

a kick up the ass might do the trick ;D

Not if she likes it...

[psyco6]

Apr 13, 2013 14:38:36 GMT 1 PhoenixKsE said:

psycho this is a known issue, and we're working on an update.

Hurry up and get a Beta out please!!!!! ;D

[sfscriv]