Friday, October 11, 2013

Voice Commands in Arma 3: Move fast to specific location

Ordering your squad members or team to move fast to a specific location using voice commands in Arma 3. One of the cool things you can do with GlovePIE voice commands .



Using the default Arma 3 setup, there are 2 ways  to move units / team. First is with the use of a map. This portion of the video explains it.




In the absence of a map, you then select team/unit, point to where you'd like selected units to move then hit the Spacebar of your keyboard. This portion of the video explains it.



After you hit the Spacebar, there would be an audio/radio notice (like Team Red, move 100 meters front) then your selected units would comply by moving to the spot where you asked them to move. Units/team move slow.




Now, with GlovePIE voice commands all you have to do is point to a specific location then say the command. This portion of the video demonstrates it.




One can use Team White move there to have for example team white to move to a generic ground location or one can also specify a location like Team Yellow move to that bush or Team Red move to that rock or Team White move to that tree ...  any location or landmark that you see you include in the voice command. This portion of the video demonstrates it.






Voice commands / voice recogniton / voice control in ArmA 3 using GlovePIE and voice_com addon can accomplish a lot of things. Things you can do with this setup can be summarized into two categories:


(1) BASIC commands for player (yourself) or squad (AIs, NPCs)

- Commands like change view, kneel, stand up, go prone, open watch, open map, assign team, mount vehicle, disembark, engage target, open fire, hold fire, watch direction, copy stance, etcetera.

- Of course, those basic commands above can also be programmed in other 3rd-party voice recognition softwares like PiLfluS, Shoot, VAC or Windows Speech Recognition Macros. A walk in the park task.


- What happens here is that GlovePIE translates your voice command/s to the corresponding key bindings. For instance, when you say "squad", GlovePIE would press for you the "~" key (tilde key) which by default would select all members of your squad.

- Another example is when you say "two" "three" "return to formation", GlovePIE would press in consecutive order the following keys: F2  F3  1  1. Those examples are dependent on the default game key bindings. GlovePIE clicks them for you when you issue a command. The voice commands can be programmed to your own liking. So, instead of saying "squad", you could use "all" or "guys listen up" or whatever phrase you desire and the end result would still press key "~".


Check this link for the write-up and video about how basic GlovePIE voice commands in Arma 3 work.





For a list of Arma 3 key assignments, check out this link. Thanks to alpha-kilo.
http://tinyurl.com/nyh4agh

Here's a video from Royal Gamers UK demonstrating squad commands in Arma 3 using GlovePIE:
http://youtu.be/xWIfB-aM7h4

Reddit discussion:
http://redd.it/1i04oz




(2) ADVANCED commands for player (yourself) or squad (AIs, NPCs)

- Adding or removing your own/your squad member's rifle attachments such as optics, flashlight and suppressors, adding or removing clothes/ uniforms, commands for player or squad invincibility, adding (spawning) any weapon, ammo, vehicle, item in ArmA 3 or from ArmA 2 (thru AiA), time and weather manipulation, calling artillery strikes, moving to specific map location, etc.

- Now, this is something unique since there is no in-game menu or dialog interaction involved, no keyboard shortcuts pressed. Just use your voice. To each his own. This setup is not dependent on injectors, cheat menu or hack menu found elsewhere on the internet.


So...

If you need a Glock, then just say "add Glock"
Want a AMV-7 Marshall? Just say "add Marshall"
Need a ARCO optics for your rifle? Just say "add A R C O"
To add 2 hours to current time, just say "add two hours"
To call artillery strike at designated map location, just say "artillery"
To order your squad to fire at specific target, just point and say "target that"

... and so on and so forth.


Very easy to use. I haven't seen a video on YouTube using similar approach. I could be wrong though.


Wish Bohemia Interactive devs integrated some sort of voice recognition feature in Arma 3 for us who love to say what we want in game. Of course, not all commands of the not-so-basic stuff like weapon and vehicle spawning, calling for artillery or nuke strike, weather and time manipulation can be added to the proposed feature but I think adding voice recognition support for basic AI/squad commands is plausible. I believe that it adds realistic immersion to the already awesome game that is Arma 3. One could just say 'Two, gunner get in that chopper' instead of pressing the equivalent key bindings.


Wishful thinking? Who knows, the devs might give it a go. Vote up!
http://feedback.arma3.com/view.php?id=2843



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Thanks for dropping by. Voice commands and Arma 3 rocks!


USEFUL LINKS

ArmA 3
http://www.arma3.com


GlovePIE 0.45 Free
http://glovepie.org/glovepie_download.php