Race Engineer - You are NOT alone on track [WIP]

GauchoRS

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I would like to share my experience with speech recognition and a simulated dialog with an virtual race engineer in rfactor2.
Using GlovePIE you can really talk to your mate in the pitstand and ask him
- for modifications in pitstrategy
- get motivational words from him
- earn more or less sarcastical randomly changing answers
- invoke overlays like as HUD, pit menu, trackmap
- as admin invoke/revoke the safety car with your voice
....

You will never feel alone on the track anymore.....



OBS.:
GlovePIE will not receive any data from rFactor2. So infos like car position, race state or car status will not be processed ....
UNTIL somebody will do the necessary work with the internal plugin interface. Come on programmers, get your hands on.

Here you may study how it works and which commands will be available
View attachment 10024

PLEASE print this documentation on paper and READ (mostly the first page) !!

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Now its YOUR turn. Try the WIP version as it is. Any constructive annotation welcome. HAVE FUN !@!

How to install/use:

1. Extract the contents of the zip archive on any partition

2. Open the folder ``GlovePIE`` and run ``FreePie.exe``

3. Open the rF2_race_eng_V.081 script in /GlovePIE/Voicescripts

4. Verify if you can use Joystickbutton.8 for Speech Recognition or moidify it in script. If you want to change the name of your race eng. modify ``Hi Sam`` line.

5. click on RUN
to verifiy the recognized voice commands switch on
``Show Speech Recognition Progress`` under tab ``TroubleShooter``

6. Use joystickbutton8 to start speech recognition.
You must hear a bleep and radio background shutter fo about 3 seconds.

7. Keep joystickbutton8 pushed and say ``Hello box`` or ``Hi Sam``
Have a look to the Debug window, may be you must repeat it some times.
You should get a random answer from pitcrew stuff.

8. Go through the documentation and try some other commands
Are you satisfied with speech recognition?
If not, try to train your windows speech recognition
Sometimes it helps if you repeat so say ``Voice ON``

9. If all is going fine, you may start your rFactor2 and modify/set the keystrokes
mentioned in the documentation

10. Go to track (Race button) and try to ``talk to your race engineer``


Dowload here:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7qlqZM1cmwVSUNsNHRmbndqQWM/edit?usp=sharing
 
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Knight of Redemption said:
I am getting no audio, speech recognition is picking up commands, but nothing is being output to my headphones
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please verify if you opened the ENGLish version script: rF2-race-ing-ENGL-V-0-81.PIE
there are other scripts (german language etc.) which will not work

do you hear the ''bleep'' and 3 sec radio shutter if you press your joystickbutton(8) ?
 
make sure you are loading rF2-race-ing-ENGL-V-0-81.PIE and not rF2-race-ing-ENGL-V-0-8.PIE because the latter has an error and points to GlovePie\WAVES-DEUTSCH instead of GlovePie\WAVES-ENGL
 
do you click `Run` to start the script?
do you keep JB8 pressed
are your commands recognized ? *(do you see words recognized in Debug window?)
 
It's okay I'll wait for the release version, if I still have problems then we will look deeper. I will play around some more and see if I can get to the root of it.
 
This would be awesome with the Rift as I obviously can't see any button box :)
Great idea! Will try this out tomorrow.
 
GauchoRS said:
I got feedback from another beta tester, indicated that there was an error message at start up of GlovePIE:
``Invalid pointer operation``.

If this message appears, there is no solution availabe. You have to install GlovePIE version 0.43 and use that glovepie.exe
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7qlqZM1cmwVNF9aWUVQX1dwNHc/edit?usp=sharing
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I get this error because I am using Open Track. If I start Open Track first then GlovePIE second, the error appears. The work around is simple in my case; I open GlovePIE first then Open Track and everything is fine.

Don't know if it is the same for you.
 
Hi, i have just tried GlovePie. But it doesn't work for me.
I installed like in post 1. opened ...ENGL-v-0-81.pie and pressed run. in debug window i can see that it recognizes "hello box" but i don't hear anything.
also when i pressed button8 or anything else on G27 wheel. I tried with button4, but also no bleep or anything else.
is my wheel really joystick1 ??? how i can find out, which one it is? it's the only wheel or joystick which is connected on any usb-port.
any ideas?
 
I found the solution to why some of you guys probably can't hear any sound at all.
In the script, I had to edit the file locations in all lines which included the "Playsound" command.


Here is an example:

Playsound ("\GlovePie\WAVES-ENGL\bleep.wav")

needs to be

Playsound ("WAVES-ENGL\bleep.wav")

for me to work.


HERE'S an already edited file you can download and replace the original with (it's located in your "GlovePIE\VoiceScripts" folder).

If you won't hear the loud beep now when pressing the Button #8 (on a G27, it's the button on the wheel on the upper left, for example), you may want to edit the "joystick1.Button8" in line 26 and line 31 to "Joystick.Wheel.Button8".

Hope this helps.


Greez Rob
 
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