Live subtitles with Voice Attack?

[UltimaN3rd]

Hey there, I saw OPNerd using Voice Attack in his stream, and I decided to take a look at the software. The voice commands work like a charm, but I have a different purpose in mind for the software. Some of my viewers on my live stream have suggested that I put up live subtitles on the stream for deaf viewers, and I'd like to at least try it out.

Is this currently easily possible with VA?

That not being the case, I'd like to request the ability to have what I say typed live into a window in Voice Attack, with customizable size (and, less importantly, font) so that I can use a window capture and insert this text into OBS. It would also be best if the window cleared itself of text whenever I hadn't talked for a few moments, and was resizable.

Thanks for reading mate, and if none of this is possible in VA could you point me in the right direction to keep looking?

Cheers, UltimaN3rd.

[Gary]

Hello, UltimaN3rd.

 

What you are looking for is a little outside the scope of VoiceAttack, however it does sound like it would be an interesting project.  I started thinking that maybe VoiceAttack could use Wordpad as a target and you could issue commands that fill and clear Wordpad.  Then I realized that you really need something that's like closed captioning for your dictation :)  VoiceAttack is not got at ALL for dictation (if you'll notice, the unrecognized items that show up in the log rarely resemble anything you actually said... this is by design so that VoiceAttack can, 'focus' on the commands its supposed to recognize... kind of questions the usefulness of the log showing unrecognized stuff...lol).  I could possibly put in a way to disengage from processing by saying something like, 'start dictation' and 'stop dictation' and then have a way for the dictated buffer to be used... not sure what I could do at that point... maybe have a command that types or pastes the buffer?  This probably doesn't help the situation, since it would require you to constantly be starting and stopping dictation.  Maybe make it to where the buffer is dumped out any time there is a pause in speech...    just shooting from the hip here... it's migraine Friday :)

 

Gary

[UltimaN3rd]

Hey Gary, thanks for the reply! Reading your response, I think if you added this "start dictation" command would be the first step. Then, while it's just taking what you say, the simplest thing to do would be to utilize the box that's already in VA. Instead of posting "Unrecognized: blah blah", it could paste directly what you say into that box, then clear it after a certain amount of silence. Then I could use a window capture in OBS to capture the text, and chroma key out the background. For this purpose, preferably the font size, colour and font itself would be customizable, but if that's not possible at the moment just setting a font of about size 24 in white with a black background would probably work just fine.

Thanks a lot for considering the idea Gary, hopefully if it's not too difficult to implement ;)

[UltimaN3rd]

As it turns out, one of my viewers decided to develop the perfect captioning software for me after the idea was discussed on my stream! I still think it'd be a great addition to Voice Attack, but the software (which I'll link for you to take a look at when he makes a web page for it) does it's job very well, so until such a time as I need voice commands, I think it'll be ideal for me ;) Thanks for discussing the idea here though, and if you do add the captioning functionality, later on when I need voice commands they captioning would be very useful :)

[UltimaN3rd]

Here's the website for the software my viewer CYBUTEK made me: http://cybutek.net/