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VAC: running RC4 by voice-commands

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In another thread in this forum there have been questions about "Super ATC" and its usability for RC4.
What is pinned as "Super ATC Released" at the top of this forum refers to a subset of voice commands of IYP (It's Your Plane) specifically taylored to RC4. IYP is still available at http://www.itsyourplane.com/ .

 

I would like to draw your attention to a simple program I am using exclusively for RC4 since about half a year ago:

 

VAC (Voice Activated Commands, http://www.dwvac.com/). It translates voice-commands to key presses in any windows program. It's stable and frame-rate friendly but, of course, it doesn't have an RC4 profile. If any of you are interested I will be glad to share the one I did for RC4.

 

Comparing  IYP to VAC: IYP can dial numbers (Radios, Courses, SQUAK), something VAC cannot do. On the other hand VAC can execute a sequence of keypresses with a single voice command. Something that's rather useful with RC4's menu structure: "direct to waypoint" will put you directly to the selection of next waypoints, without having to change to the next window first. You also can call RC4 actions not visible in the present menu: "deviation for weather", for example.

 

VAC also works well with FS2Crew, voice editions. L-CTRL as mute key in FS2Crew acts as activation key in VAC. To get this to work is more complicated in IYP.

 

So if you are interested to voice activate RC4 check out VAC.

 

Why not using something like Multi Crew Experience (http://multicrewxp.com/)? I was looking not for a sophisticated application simulating an FO, other crew members and a ground crew but for a simple program just handling RC4. For those other functions I use FS2Crew. Of course, if you are regularly flying planes not supported by FS2Crew, MCE is very much worth looking into.

Regards,

Andreas Gutzwiller

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