VoiceAttack in DCS is Really Useful | Tutorial

DCS World, on ULTRA settings for the ultimate realistic experience.

VoiceAttack! In this video we go through a full tutorial; download, install and setup as well as demonstrate it in game. It really is a nice, free handy mod to have available in your arsenal!

Game: DCS World
Aircraft: F/A-18C, F-14B
DLC: Supercarrier, Persian Gulf
Hotas: Logitech X52

Mods:

Editing: Adobe Premiere Pro
Recording: Nvidia ShadowPlay

System Specs:
GPU: GTX 3090
CPU: AMD 5800X3D
RAM: DDR4 3600MHZ 64GB
TrackIRv5

00:00 | Intro
00:24 | Demo
00:57 | Download & Install
02:05 | Initial Setup
02:39 | Basic Example
05:48 | Advanced Example
09:12 | Thanks for Watching

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[pinkfloyd]

Voice Attack is astonishingly useful and very inexpensive. Got to love it!

[chiefsheep]

Good video.
One other thing that is very useful is that you can bind a control on your HOTAS or keyboard to be your PTT (Push To Talk) button (see Options, then Hotkeys. If using a HOTAS you'll need to turn on the controller in VoiceAttack, (see Options, General, Joystick Options) ), so you don't have to have a hot mike open all the time (and Voice Attack won't pick up bits of normal speech that it might then think is a command).
Even better is that under the Options menu of each profile you can bind a different PTT control for each profile if you want (meaning instead of using the same PTT button globally you can define one per game, or even per module within DCS).
This means that, for example, your could have one control on your HOTAS for VoiceAttack PTT, one for Discord PTT and one for SRS PTT, so have full control over who you are speaking to and when!

[bricktopperheadon]

Very cool. Thanks for taking the time to do this. 👍

[bkpickell]

I love Voice Attack. I use it for FC3 Aircraft. It makes life so much easier. I started using it mainly because I have an X56 Hotas with the button ghosting issue. So instead of being stuck with the keyboard for all of the bindings I use voice attack. It's such a life saver.

[ricbarker]

I bought an expensive VR headset to play DCS and the immersion is amazing, especially for helicopters where peripheral vision is a must for hovering. But when it comes to flying complicated jets, I struggle to remember key bindings on my HOTAS and when using F keys. I went back to TrackIR because it was just too frustrating. Voice Attack might get me back into VR. It looks very promising.

[steveman]

Nice, a looong time ago I used to have Dragon Dictate setup to handle wingman comms in Jane's F/A-18. Voice recognition should have come a long way since 2002-ish.

[rjhowlan]

Hey Scanman, great video on using VoiceAttack. As an alternative, if you search for Bailey VA profiles in the DCS user forums he built a whole series of VA profiles for most of the aircraft within DCS.

[CueDriver]

Lol, bought it years ago just never set it up. But this video did answer a few things I wondered about.

[SnowTiger]

I haven't flown in DCS for a very long time but I still own a Pro version of VoiceAttack. I never did start using it but I have always known that it will be crucial for VR flying as opposed to blindly trying to find the right keyboard combo when essentially blind-folded !
I will be back into DCS and will start using VA within the next few weeks.

[kllraffe]

it is very much worth the couple bucks to invest in. thanks for the comprehensive introduction that will most likly help a lot of people to look into this awesome tool :)

but it can be quite annoying when you´re in discord with other friends who constantly have to listen to your voice attack inputs... i came around that issue by setting up a "push listen" hotkey under general options on my warthogs 'radio switch up'. same key goes as "push to mute" in discord. so whilst i mute myself in discord i can open the listening channel in voiceattack for my commands. additionally it prevents voiceattack to pick up random chatter from me converting it into actions without my intention.

[ProGamer-gcwv]

@Scanman87 as i can hear your background sound, it seems to me loud! In my Case voice attack works only if i set the Volume in DCS to 60% else the software dont recognize me and i have to scream to recognize me. How you did manage to speak normal and that the voice attack recognize you? I also want to hear the aircraft like in your video, your volume is loud and you can speak normal...

[Yikesonspikess]

the way your voice is coming through is vibrating the back of my throat and i want to throw up

[keithcolvin]

Does it pass Multiplayer integrity check ?

[paristo]

Get any voice recognition software (even one built in windows) and you need to bind only few function to it.

F1 - F12
Space bar
ESC
Pause

Nothing else really.

Everything else should be done with clicking cockpit with either hands or mouse.
And those who are in to realism, then they will accept that it is unrealistic to start operating aircraft by any means when pulling G's or maneuvering. That is why you have HOTAS, that you don't need to try but you have everything you need to fly in that situation.

If something isn't in HOTAS, it isn't meant to be used in maneuvering.

Like landing gear, landing flaps etc are done well before coming to landing, you prepare your landing in advance.

This is why radio is really only thing to be used with voice recognition software as in reality you press button in stick or throttle and you speak, but in DCS that doesn't work as you need to click things. Same is with menu and pause buttons. In tutorials you want space bar to continue tutorial.

And to make all universal, just use numbers for F1 - F12
So say "One" or "Three" to get radio used. Forget all spoken words like "Inbound" or "Request takeoff".
As this as well allows you to use Easy Radio if wanted, or adapt to anything that use radio mechanism in DCS, like JTAC and so on.

Any software will do, that allows to press wanted buttons.
And learn to do everything else in cockpit, that is how real pilots do it... Not by speaking to operate MFCD or weapons or anything else. That is cheating, and you should be better than that!

[future]

it doesnt understand my Australian accent :(

[sirbum]

just for information there is one in the DCS forums that already has everything setup for voice attack. Its Vicompro. Use to cost money but the gentleman who was doing it no longer does it so it became open source. It actually has a lot of things setup for voice attack for all planes.

[marcquintin]

The coms in DCS suck so bad that Voice Attack is useless

[underscore]

Thanks a lot bro this video helped me and this application is so cool I might end up buying it thx again! 🫡