@SemlerPDX Hey SemlerPDX! Truth be told, I’ve been itching to delve into your AVCS for a while now. Guess it’s about time I took the plunge. Now, regarding my initial question - it’s a swirling storm of variables. For instance, it could well be tied to how I’ve been juggling processes across cores in ProcessLasso.

@Ironman53rd Thats the one, thanks bud, its been ages since i set up a voice profile, i knew i had seen it somewhere! cheers again

Hello

Since 437 U2 Vac is not supported by bms team.

Here you can download my file for VAC with right commands.
It’s a very simple version .
I kept only one o two sentences for commands.

My good french accent is not easy for vac (nobody’is perfect LOL) so i changed in flight menu “flight” to ‘formation’
I changed also some sentences to be easiest and more intuitive to my mind
“tanker name” formation request fuel for example

You can improve file of course

Have fun
https://www.mediafire.com/file/gj3rns32c1ep6ga/437_U2.xml/file

Sorry to hijack this thread, but I just found out about this the hard way when I rebuilt my system, and now find that I am unable to register, and so use, this software. I have been using VAC for years, have it configured just so for many sims, and now find myself up a certain creek without a paddle.

Does anyone have any idea of how to get this sofware working or know if there’s any way to contact the dev?

Thanks.

Jeeves BMS Radio Plugin, now v0.2.0. with many more commonly used menu item phrases, including “Runway N N” phrases for Tower calls, and “Four-ship F16” etc. (Idea from the excellent UOAF profile.)

Ability to change aircraft type on the fly with “Update Aircraft Type F18/F16/etc”.

User controllable “DirectMenu” framework so user can set specific menus to not display while listening for menu item choices. This lets a user mark which menus they don’t need displayed, since they use them all the time and know them well, while letting other menus they don’t have memorized still display normally. (Lightly tested.)

User controllable “directMenuGroup” framework to allow grouping multiple menus together that listen (like a DirectMenu) for any menu items from all menus in the group without having a menu up. This is quite useful and still allows normal use of the menus included in the group. Two menu groups have been added. The “Approach” group contains Approach 1 & Approach 2 menus and the “AWACS” group contains AWACS Tactical & AWACS Vectors. You can still pull up the specific menu by specifying “Approach 1/2” or “AWACS/Overlord Tactical/Vectors”. You can add your own directMenuGroups.

Arco 3, Viper 1 - Request Flight Refueling
Update Callsign Hunter 6
<<Say your flight position in Hunter 6 or say ‘Skip’>>
One
<<New Callsign Hunter 6 1, Reinitializing Profile>>
Tower, Hunter 6 - On Final Runway 2 6
Axeman 2, Hunter 6 1 - Check In
Update Aircraft Type F18
<<New Aircraft Type F18, Reinitializing Profile>>
Tower, Hunter 6, Two-Ship F18 - Request Formation Landing

Details, as always, in the README. https://github.com/tanrr/Tanrr.VAPlugin.BMSRadio

@kokumo @M-Brzozowski

updated for the new callsign and callsign numbers(1 to 9), still uses the same old commands tho

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pgxgrssAeJWT8aj8wJ8IMKTB4WJVnXXP/view?usp=share_link

@Boxer thx, u know i always wondered why whenever i start bms and go to setup,select my key file,load and always noticed that dgft/msm deselect was shown .
Now it just loads and showing bms full, my file name.
So it has always shown as activated,never really thought about it till using foxvox.
So now its still activated i guess even though nothing to activate.
Confused on why that particular key , something still not quite right in my key file, no clue.
Anyhoo, thankyou
Till my next WTF !!!👍 😁

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@foxster Thanks for sharing! I guess when you have the skills + time, it’s amazing what talented folks in this community can do.

<blockquote>@Freejack <br /><br />That’s very great news, thanks for sharing! Does this setup make use of the windows voice recognition packs? <br /><br />Sadly I’ve found Linux speech recognition / snythesis severely lacking. <br /><br />Cheers, <br /><br />Uwe </blockquote><p><br />It uses the packs mentioned to be installed in the link. It is the microsoft speech engine and packs.</p>

@jcenzano:

I think the development has been discontinued, but the Version4 is a full working version.

The advantage over VA is that Keyspeech is way simpler and the profiles are more easily customized. It worked very well (if you were aware of the limitations) with V4.34. Don’t know about 4.35

On the other hand, VA is still being developed and updated and it is a more powerful and flexible software, but profile customization might not be so straight forward.

I own both and IMHO, for DCS VA with VAICOM PRO plugin is a much better option, but I am so used to my own Keyspeech profile for BMS, that I am very reluctant to change.

Agreed, plus I’ve always thought your profiles were great! Trying to setup voice profiles again since it seems I finally have a reliable way to run BMS in VR, but I nuked Keyspeech in my last Windows reinstall a year ago. Since the Keyspeech website is down, is there any reason for me to try to get a copy of V4 if I can’t activate my license that I bought and have been happy with since 2014? This is part of the reason I hate license keys like this. Granted I got my $10 use out of it, but it would still be a viable option if I could keep it running.

If not I’ll go for what’s looks to be SemlerPDX’s great work in VA, but I was trying to keep VA w/Viacom Pro for DCS.

I had a feeling you’d catch that… I didn’t have a controller plugged in so I nabbed a screenshot from the “set a keyboard key” of a command instead of the “set a joystick/controller button” part for the relevant checkbox I was pointing out, unintentionally misleading.
😄
For anyone who reads this in future, this method is valid for keyboard, joystick, or mouse - the settings below ‘When I say’. And for clarity, creating a voice command that will not be called by voice might look best using a very specific “label” in the ‘When I say’ box instead, and then unchecking the box next to it. This will grey out the command phrase as seen in the editor, helping it stand out against other proper voice commands.

*edit: lmao - just had a brain fart, could have grabbed the screenshot from controller view even without one connected, I need more coffee 😉

@SemlerPDX:

Definitely post up if you have an success. I’m also an MSI user and I gave up hunting for the VoiceAttack crash bug some time ago; might get proactive again eventually, but I just wrote an auto-restarter that keeps VA open all the time and been using that lazy tool for a long time now.

Being an MSI system, I also have the nahimic app on my PC, though iirc had eliminated it as a possible culprit but cannot recall why so I might revisit this, too, especially if you have success. Have you checked your VoiceAttack fault logs and/or Windows Event Logs around the time of a crash? VoiceAttack fault logs are located here: %AppData%\VoiceAttack

I know that the Discord App likes to crash my video driver when I’m running fullscreen or windowed fullscreen games, and I can save myself from a forced shutdown and restart if I notice the freeze and hit Win + Ctrl + Shift + B fast enough to restart the driver before the system becomes entirely unresponsive. Went through all the motions with no fix, turning off hardware acceleration, etc. This is where I got into investigating through the Windows Event Viewer and discovered the errors surrounding a crash which helped a lot.

Best wishes and good luck - and post up after awhile whether you’ve had any more crashes.

I haven’t looked at crash logs, but VA would crash 3-4 during a flight. Most of the time I had no clue it crashed until I issued a command and there was no response. Since turning the nahimic off I’ve had far less issues. Last night I made a flight and luckily it didn’t crash. But I like to have a few flights done with something to establish something is fixed.

@justonce01:

I don’t think it counts as free software. On the “Download” page it mentions a license, but it doesn’t appear to be licensed under one of the common free software licenses. I also can’t find a link to the source.

lol - by that definition, my AVCS4 BMS Radios (for VoiceAttack) is not ‘free’… but then again, I do attach a CC by-nc-nd or by-nc-sa license to most all of my own work, still though - that’s a pretty liberal definition of terms. But this voice macro software is specifically donationware, and like my AVCS4 BMS Radios, free to use without limitations but encouraging support for the likely hundreds or thousands of hours of work put into it, not to mention continued user support.

Greetings.
Been using the VAC programme for a while now and I’m really happy with it.
Right now, in order to get VAC running, I do the following:
1- left-click on desktop shortcut to run VAC.
2- Open Systems tray and right-click on VAC icon to load profile. (Using Deejay’s profile)
3- Open Systems tray and right-click on VAC icon to turn VAC, “on”
I was wondering if there is a shorter method of starting up the programme or maybe even automatically, maybe thru task manager or something?
Not sure if it’s even possible.
Thanks very much.

Update.
Should have checked the DWVAC support forum first.
The answer’s in there.
I’ll post the instructions here just in case anyone will find it useful.

Right-click on VAC shortcut icon.

The following is a quote taken from DWVAC forum (FAQ section).

“Under the short cut tab you’ll see Target: “C:\Program Files (x86)\VAC System\VACSystem.exe” add your parameters after the quote.”

“C:\Program Files (x86)\VAC System\VACSystem.exe” My Profile,true"

“My Profile” needs to be substituted with the name of your preferred profile (BMS_VAC_(QWERTY), in my case.

Now, when I turn VAC on…Profile and Voice switch on automatically.

Best wishes everyone.

Profile for VoiceAttack
by =VG= SemlerPDX

Currently Supported Operations:

‘Squared’ - ‘Cubed’ - Exponents - Square Root Addition - Subtraction - Division - Multiplication Percentages - Pi (word substituted for Pi to 16 decimal places)

Currently Supported Conversions (to and from):

Velocity === Feet per Second - Meters Per Second - Knots - Miles Per Hour - Kilometers Per Hour - Mach Length === Inches - Centimeters - Feet - Meters - Yards - Miles - Kilometers Temperature === Fahrenheit - Celsius/Centigrade - Kelvin

–To use the Calculator, say, “Turn On Calculator” (or many natural variations of this, like “Start Calculating”)
–To stop using the Calculator, say, “Turn Off Calculator” (or, again, many variations, like “Stop Calculations”)

NOTE: When Calculator is OFF, even when a potential calculation command IS recognized, the command will immediately exit.

DOWNLOAD: https://veterans-gaming.com/index.php?/files/file/39-avcs-voice-calculator-conversions-profile/

DEMONSTRATION VIDEO:

DESCRIPTION:
Calculate up to two operations with up to three values, or a single conversion. So far, I have added some simple conversions for velocity, length, and temperature. Wildcard voice recognition uses asterisks “*” around the functional operator words to catch any spoken phrase which contains any of these words. As a result, it is meant to be turned ON when needed, and OFF when not, by use of the commands “Turn On/Off Calculator” (or many included variations, like “Start Calculating” or “Stop Calculations”).

Currently, this calculator requires the user to be aware of their own order of operations, but will try to catch many known issues and correct them, such as “What is four subtracted from twelve?”, where “12” is actually the first number. The operation (as interpreted) is always printed out in the VoiceAttack Event Log and the result spoken, if successful. It is also stored to memory by the name “Value” followed the number shown in the log. This allows use of that number or recalling that number at any time.

The last result of any valid equation is stored in the word “that”, and can immediately be used in the next calculation, and any previous value can be recalled to become the word “that”. Previous results can all be referred to by their “Value” number from the results log, in natural speech, for a new equation such as, “Divide that by Value 14”. The full calculation history can be requested at any time, listed in the VoiceAttack Event Log, or cleared - this is also cleared anytime the VoiceAttack program is restarted. Up to 99 previous equations and their results are stored before rolling over and over-writing starting back at Value 1.

Decimal Places can be set (default 3) from 0 to 16, and will be saved and recalled between VoiceAttack sessions (saved to profile). A small Profile Update Check is performed once per session, when Calculator Mode is first turned on, and this checks a single decimal number on a blank htm page on the veterans-gaming secure website. Users can delete this action as noted in the Main calculations command, if undesired, otherwise this will make a small note in the VoiceAttack Event Log if the profile is updated, just to let you know of any improvements, bug fixes, or changes.

I plan to add on more conversions and maybe even special operations in the future, but for now, everything is working so well, I figured I’d release this first version for the public right away.

FINAL NOTE:
This profile makes use of VoiceAttack “Wildcard” commands, and here they are used to catch ANY speech which contains one of the Maths or Conversions operator keywords, and so it is possible for these commands to fire at undesired times. Always use the command to Turn OFF the Calculator when not in use. There are 4 options for how to make use of this profile. You can just switch to this profile when needed, and say, “Start Calculating”, or you can include or import commands into other profiles.

=============== OPTIONAL WAYS TO USE THIS PROFILE ===============

OPTION 1: Switch to the AVCS Calculator Profile and say, “Start Calculations” to use

OPTION 2: Open Profile Options for any of your Profiles, select Include Commands from other profile:“AVCS Voice Calculator (latest version)”
-or-
OPTION 2b: Open VoiceAttack Options and select Global profiles, then Include Profile Commands from the profile:“AVCS Voice Calculator (latest version)”

OPTION 3: Switch to any of your other Profiles, and edit that profile - select “Import Commands” andfind/select the AVCS CALC profile (ending in “.vap”), and import ALL Commands
-or-
OPTION 3b: Open the AVCS CALC profile, and select each command, right click and “Copy To” any profile.

OPTION 4: Same as 3/3b above, BUT you ONLY Import the “Turn ON/OFF Calculator Master Mode” command*
*Using OPTION 4, using “Turn On Calculations” (or any variation) will
switch to and from this Calculator Profile as needed. This is the most
strict way to deny calculation commands getting infrequently
recognized (but exiting anyway) when Calculator Mode is OFF

================================================== =======

The main calculation command is almost entirely an Inline Function in VB.net - feel free to review this script here:
AVCS Voice Calculator & Unit Conversions Inline Function in VB.net for VoiceAttack

@drtbkj:

Hi, Jc,
Have you tried “getting creative” with your VA programming? What I mean is, as in RTB for example, program “Are/Hour tea bee” ? It doesn’t look pretty in the profile, but it has helped me at times.
AWACS could be " A wax". Whatever gives you the “recognised command” message.

I found out that the Voice Attack was set up to respond to “Approach abort”, “Tower Abort”.

I don’t even know exactly what I did, but I figured it out and it works. And thank you for your help! 4.35 is amazing!!!

1. Don’t have MS Speech Recognition program running while using VAC… close the MS Program if it is open, VAC hooks into it and doesn’t require the program to run in the background (and could cause issues).

2. Run VAC as Administrator (for troubleshooting)

3. First steps for using MS Speech Recognition for any program is to run through the Windows Speech Recognition Training at least THREE times completely through, in a quiet room, speaking naturally as opposed to over enunciating (else in future, only over-enunciated words would be easily recognized).

4. When done, you can use a utility program to backup your new Speech Profile so that unless your voice changes, or you get a new mic just different enough to foul up recognition, you’ll never have to run through the boring Speech Training sessions ever again. (link below)

MS Speech Recognition is tied to your voice, and your microphone (the one you use to train it). While I’ve had no issues between my various mics (webcam/headset/area mic), it should be noted that it’s “per person & per hardware” … Jane Girlfriend will not have the same success on that same PC, and should use a different Windows user account so as to load their own voice profile (if it’s a shared computer) and follow the same steps to train their own voice into a new profile for MS Speech.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/9b6ffxxkm00bu2o/Windows_Speech_Profile_Backup_Tool.rar?dl=1

edit: *forums for VAC are not as active as BMS here, but you might try posting up over there if you keep having issues… this problem does not seem to be specific to BMS, even though you’re noticing this problem while using BMS: http://www.dwvac.com/vac_phpBB3/index.php

@Krupatch:

Thank you. Great find and big work for the profile. I’ve got a low cost configuration as I am an occasional player, so I tried it and it works fine. Changed qwerty to azerty (french keyboard) without trouble. I mapped the PTT to my buttons (x52 hat).

However, the button pressed (down&up) detection seems unreliable and sometimes stops working altogether.
Did you run into the same trouble?

I also had problems with my X52 Pro. I reported it on the VoiceMacro website and they fixed it. Give it another try and make sure to use the test build (VoiceMacro_latestBuild_1.3.1.17.zip).