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For that Star Trek Feel: Add voice recognition commands!

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I was wracking my brain thinking of how to make Star Trek Online feel even more like an authentic Star Trek experience, and I came up with an idea: voice recognition commands.

All through the star trek world, the primary interaction between humans and computers is more of a verbal action than a tactile one. "Fire all weapons!" "Fire Torpedoes" "Execute attack pattern Alpha" and of course the infamous "initiate self-destruct" commands are common throughout the series, and would provide STO with a very specific edge over the competition MMOs.

It's a pretty basic idea, and is a functionality that is available on most modern cell phones, but basically upon enabling this feature, you would be allowed to assign voice-commands to key functions through the control bindings or even better as an added option on the powers list for each power. Basically you would designate a voice-command button just like the push-to-talk button you use for vent or teamspeak, but instead of talking to your teammates, you are talking to your computer.

Unfortunately, I don't see this happening for a while, it is probably too technically difficult for the devs to implement something like this. I wanted to share the idea though, because maybe if it were to gain enough momentum in the community then maybe the STO team would at least take a serious look at adding the functionality to the game.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    let me find that link brb
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    I was wracking my brain thinking of how to make Star Trek Online feel even more like an authentic Star Trek experience, and I came up with an idea: voice recognition commands.

    All through the star trek world, the primary interaction between humans and computers is more of a verbal action than a tactile one. "Fire all weapons!" "Fire Torpedoes" "Execute attack pattern Alpha" and of course the infamous "initiate self-destruct" commands are common throughout the series, and would provide STO with a very specific edge over the competition MMOs.

    It's a pretty basic idea, and is a functionality that is available on most modern cell phones, but basically upon enabling this feature, you would be allowed to assign voice-commands to key functions through the control bindings or even better as an added option on the powers list for each power. Basically you would designate a voice-command button just like the push-to-talk button you use for vent or teamspeak, but instead of talking to your teammates, you are talking to your computer.

    Unfortunately, I don't see this happening for a while, it is probably too technically difficult for the devs to implement something like this. I wanted to share the idea though, because maybe if it were to gain enough momentum in the community then maybe the STO team would at least take a serious look at adding the functionality to the game.

    Might be wishful thinking. voice-recognition is still WAY too young. I've tried different programs, and they require too much pre-use setup to be useful.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Try e-speaking. Very easy and good program.
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