Shoot

[crocker]

I have just come across a freeware called, Shoot 1.6.4. For those fliers who have not heard of this before (like me) it is a voice recognition programme. Before I do any more research, has anyone tried it and how did it behave?
Thanks guys. :-/

[Calb]

It's still around, huh?

I can't remember when it came out -- sometime in FS2002 I think, but not sure. I fiddled with it for a couple of weeks, I even corresponded with the author about some fixes and suggestions to extend it's capability. I recall he said he was going issue an update but don't know if he ever did.

Then, another one, with far more features and commands was released. It was somewhat more difficule to configure bue was far superior. I can't find it in any of my CD archives so I guess I didn't save it.

I abandoned Shoot and unless he radically updated it, I'm not sure I'd bother.

If I find the name of the other one, I'll post it.

Cal

NEW INFO:

I should have researched FIRST. It seems Peter, the author of Shoot has been busy and has a new version for FS2004 out now and from the DIZ file description, it sounds good.

I found config files for it at both AVSIM and Flightsim but I don't see any here.

The other "old" program I was referring to is called, SpeechBuddy 2 by Billy Verreynne. It was for FS2002 so may not work for FS9.

By way of history, there was yet another one, came out during FS98 I believe and updated during FS2000, Voice Master. There was a Lite (freeware) version and a Pro version which was payware.

Glad to you posted yer question. I think I'll try the new version of Shoot and see how it works.

Cal

[crocker]

Cal

thanks for your useful comments. I picked this freeware up from one of Peter Wilding's zips pwover15.zip (water textures). The Shoot zip was included in the texture zip. It's one huge download particularly if you haven't got the other microsoft software which you need to run it. I'm still debating whether or not to give it a try. My biggest problem is that I'm still running Win98 SE and although Shoot is compatible I'm not convinced that 98 could handle it.
Cheers and thanks again.

Crocker  

[Calb]

At the time, I was using Win98SE and it handled the speech engine without a glitch even in the presence of FS2000/2002 and Shoot or Speechbuddy 2. I think I only had 128 Mb of RAM then too.

I don't know how big the speech engine's footprint is. If the Shoot ReadMe doesn't state it, you can probably find it on the MS website. However, since my 128 Mb RAM handled it along with two other active apps, it can't be all that big.

Possibly the new version of Shoot is a little more demanding, I don't know. Haven't tried it yet.

Cal