Voice to Text recognition

[Lifeely]

The Idea is that Space Station 14 can recognize Players voice and translate it into text directly (Faster communication between Citizens), of course this would not be like instantly typed into chat but more like it gets into typing field and User needs to confirm to say something.

Positives

• Quicker talks between Citizens
• More time to play and keep the talking in the background

Negatives

• Might come to strange translations with some people that dont have right english accent
• Quite advanced system (requires much work to be done)
• Requires acceptence of users to allow of usage of microphone in game

Well there are some Positives and Negatives, but imagine how much would it change the gamestyle? It would make it much more realistic if people could almost instantly react or talk to each other.

[Vasilis]

This is actually a feature we already will like to see, problem is no one has begun coding it. Hardest part is making it work on all platforms

Any plans to add the ability to use mic to text for chat?

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 w…