Playing first person shooters like
Call of Duty Black Ops on the PC or RTS games like
StarCraft II is usually done with the typical keyboard-mouse combo. But what if you could have some of those keyboard commands replaced by your own voice?
Nuance Communications, the makers of the well known Dragon PC speech recognition software, announced today the launch of a new product, the
Dragon Gaming Speech Pack.
The software is being made where PC players can use their voice to handle in-game commands such as "equip" or "crouch" or other commands that otherwise would be handled by the keyboard. In theory, using the speech commands should speed up the response time for gamers.
The Dragon Gaming Speech Pack allows players to pick three games of their choice to use the software. The list of supported games includes
Call Of Duty Black Ops,
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2,
StarCraft 2,
Mass Effect 2, the newest
Medal of Honor game,
Splinter Cell Conviction,
World of Warcraft,
Rainbow Six Vegas 2,
Microsoft Flight Simulator X,
Second Life, and more. The software is sold with a copy of the Dragon Home speech recognition software. It's on sale now for an introductory price of $74.99. You can check out a video of the software in action after the jump:
Although there have been a number of attempts to simplify the controls for PC games (some more successful than others), there are still a number that have a complicated series of commands and menus to memorize and flip through. Role-playing, strategy, and a handful of action shooters can usually fall into this category, but players with control difficulty now have an alternative. Dragon NaturallySpeaking, the well-known and very accurate voice dictation software, now offers an add-on called Dragon Gaming Pack. Using it, players can use their voices to control actions in some of their favorite games. Unfortunately, ease of use is a relative term in this case, not to mention the low practicality of using this kind of software in fast paced shooter games.
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