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Originally Posted by Tindahbawx
I'll probably pass on that, I'm from Northern Ireland and our accent just does not play well with speech programs at all!  |
Because Knepfler's speech engine uses fixed phrases rather than open-ended speech interpretation, it only has a few hundred possible patterns to recognise. As a result, the accuracy is very high. Usually, I see about one "failed to recognise" in a game session of several hours (Usually, I was gargling at the time!
), and almost never a misrecognition. Admittedly, I have a standard Midwest American accent, but I'd think that it would only take one or two training sessions (about 15 minutes each) to get to a very high level of reliability regardless of accent.
IMO, voice command, the ability to control your submarine by giving orders to the crew, adds greatly to the immersion factor of all three of the SH games. Of course, you do not lose the ability to use keypress or mouseclick when you enable voice command. And once you give the order "Take "er down!" you're hooked!