OK so i get they don’t want voice chat where you hear voices but what about the ability to talk into your mic to fill in text to chat.
I ask for a few reasons
That sounds helpful, but a little too niche/gimmicky for it to be worth the effort in making IMO. Dunno much about coding though. I just don’t think it’d work out.
Also speech recognition is probably not as reliable as you’d like it to be. How many times have you had to repeat yourself to, say, Siri?
Actually, due to our stance on accessibility. We have actually looked into speech to text before.
TLDR: When you (or someone else) codes it
Someone had made an external tool for this, but had a fuss and disappeared when one admin told them it may count as a macro due to the app being external.
We DO NOT MIND this being added as part of the game itself, though.
Now, as for technology. Quality varies, Windows has built in recognition, but we will need something cross-platform because we also want to support Linux and MacOS. There’s also ML models that can be locally run on the system that may provide good voice recognition quality or use online services, but those require someone to pay up for the service.
Implementation shouldn’t be too hard as long as someone works out HOW to do the recognition.
Mic quality is pretty good in ${current_year} so this probably is not a problem.
Yeah sadly I lack coding skills, but if one day it is made that would be nice, I am slow at typing and my spelling is not the best.
But yeah would love to see it in the game but I also know not too many people would want to spend time making it. still gonna hope maybe one day 