Friday, August 27, 2010

Please uninstall before reinstall

I mistakenly name the setup to a bad name.. as picture below. Please uninstall according to the screen below. 


New setup files is updated with protoss and zerg capabilities. As well as general, i will upload the xml file asap and change it according the SC II hotkeys. I still can not get the complete list of hotkeys from the internet. I having problem to compile for the new commands. 


If you would like to help out please download : 
https://sourceforge.net/projects/starcommander/files/Demo/Commands.xml/download


Some trustful reference hotkeys list that I found: 
http://www.starcraft2freaks.com/starcraft-2-hotkeys-list/


Honestly, I did not have a SC II installed...   :P   poor

Monday, August 16, 2010

Completing the Star Commander with UI

Finally... hell, it's about time. Star Commander - Play starcraft with voice command is in smoke test release. ANY VOLUNTEER TO TEST RUN??? Current setup.exe will give u Terran capability and tested in windows XP.

Please download the setup.exe over here... 
 http://sourceforge.net/projects/starcommander/files/Demo/Setup.msi/download

Some of the PC will come without the SPEECH ENGINE. Please download SpeechSDK51MSM.exe from below URL
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5e86ec97-40a7-453f-b0ee-6583171b4530&displaylang=en

Install this will allow your computer able to utilize the speech engine by Microsoft.
My friends, I will put this into proper place..sorry for this moment of disturb in FB. hopefully come out something like help online and support later. Of cause donation web page.


Here is some image about the interfaces:-



The application will be running in the background. It will be a special ear for your PC. It listen to any starcraft related commands. Double clicks on the icon will show the configuration screen. 

Notes, the temporary icon used is Korea map and flag. Hope no offends. 











Configure Commands - bring you to Configration window

Help (Online, will point back to here)
Stop Listening to Commands, if you prefer to stop using voice commands you can stop it. That's means this program is failing. :( 


Configuration window - separated to 4 tabs. First 3 tabs will list all the commands for 3 starcraft races. General tab will contain commands for general use like grouping of units with Ctrl + 1.

The list will be grouped by unit name. The units will be sorted alphabetically. 

Only the middle column (My Voice Command) is editable. You can customize to voice command that the PC best understand you. Or any sorter and more distinctive commands. 

For example, "Build nuclear silo" changed to "nuclear silo".




Hell, it's about time.
Cheers :)

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Star Commander

In conjunction of Starcraft II beta test release. I want to share this to every starcraft fan. I am a computer guy, I like computer very much even I want to make it to talk to me.


Anyone know about Voice Recognition? Text to Speech? You might see these technologies in mobile phone or some funny machine.


Actually, since Window XP. Microsoft has installed a speech engine in the window. We can train the window to listen to us. Tech it to listen us well for different accent of English.
I am a programmer. I am totally crazy with advance and high tech stuff. Now. Star trek is my favourite. ("Computer generate report!!!"). Hey, no one will type so much in star trek. Isn't it?


Lady and gentleman,
I like to present to you my small litter program. I call it Star Commander.
This litter simple program enable player to use voice to command the actions.


I give you an example.


Double click the terrans marines and say Steam Packs. Automatically, the marines are packed with steam. Hahaha..


This is super cool, real command real voice and real action.
I think this changes the game playing experience in total.


No more shaking hand on the hard to remember shortcut keys. A lot of them.




I tested with first version of star craft. It works fine. I only have the Terrans' Command in the file with extension xml. You can simply open it up and add other race's command. You can even change the command name like Steam Packs to Stim F*cking Packs.


If you want to try it out please go to
  1. Download strcmder.zip
  2. Unzip it
  3. Change the StarCommander.txt to StarCommander.exe
  4. Run the exe (you have to be in Vista or with .NET Framework 3.0 and above)
  5. Prepare you mic
  6. Start your starcraft
  7. Start playing
  8. Training your voice recognition of window. Goto control panel to trigger the training.
Hell, it's about time...