Voice Commands

[Tealc]

I'm not sure if the developers are taking ideas from the general public or not. But I would like to recommend that they allow voice recognition. For example if the player has a mic he can acutally say engage to perform some sort of action in the game.

[Strandberg]

I am sure a lot of people agree with that, I certainly do.

But extra features will take extra time and all the voice recog I've tried so far, including Bridge Commander, works less than a 100 per cent. You have to remember the exact tone you said it in lmao

Also, I think you will grow tired of saying "target next enemy, fire, pick up loot"

[keeperofthepies]

Voice commands wouldn't be very feasible.

[ravenkind2]

I'd rather not have voice commands, I'm sure my girlfriend wouldn't appreciate me yelling OPEN FIRE non stop.

[Strandberg]

lol you will doing that anyway

[CherryTerri]

::signs out "Computer, location of Ensign Thralk" then beats her mouse on the table::

Yeah ... doesn't work when your deaf and can't talk into a mic ;)

[Akumaka]

Interesting idea, it would definitely add flavor to the game if it was added as an optional feature. However, I don't think it would work out for a lot of people. ;)

[SirDeity]

The option of enabling voice commands would ba an unquestionably popular feature. Players could just use "push to talk" where they press a button on their keyboard to submit a certain command. The voice recognition software could be "trained" to recognice their voice or at least the verbal command during the character setup/creation phase.

[Scorpster]

It would be awesome if they did.

"Set a course for Earth, maximum warp!"

[Dominick-Kane]

It would be nice. The technology for its other applications haven't been completely perfected yet, let alone put it in a video game.

Remember we're still in 2008 ;)

[Jertyrael]

This was actually brought up some time ago... several times :)

I wouldn't be surprised if you could still find the threads.

If I'm remembering properly, Cryptic liked the idea, but there was simply a lot of "Eh, it might suck" kind of thoughts for various reasons.

Frankly, It would be quite amazing to incorporate simple voice commands in my opinion. A set push-to-command button for common and even rare functions from "Open a Channel" to "Red Alert". (Sidenote: I would love to be able to say Red Alert and have my weapons charge and shields raise instantly).

[No1UKnow]

This was actually brought up some time ago... several times :)

I wouldn't be surprised if you could still find the threads.

If I'm remembering properly, Cryptic liked the idea, but there was simply a lot of "Eh, it might suck" kind of thoughts for various reasons.

Frankly, It would be quite amazing to incorporate simple voice commands in my opinion. A set push-to-command button for common and even rare functions from "Open a Channel" to "Red Alert". (Sidenote: I would love to be able to say Red Alert and have my weapons charge and shields raise instantly).

For sure. I think these boards are dying because there hasn't been anything new brought to the table in quite some time now. With every new member (welcome to one and all, i love you all, the more the merrier and all that) we get a lot of rinse repeat threads.

[Miniv]

I would actually like to have something along those lines but for hailing frequencies, id love to tell someone that they should back off or ill kill them, blow them to bits and display their goolies on my psace mantle piece. Unfortunately my idea would never be implemented because of all the idiots that would try to be funny

"open a channel, you know what mate? you're a dick" etc etc

But in terms of voice recognition of things like engage i really couldn't be bothered with it, it would just be something else to delay the games release!