VA doesnt pick up cmds because of Wind Fans

[MikeJeffries]

Hi everyone!

I use VA with digital race engineer (DRE) for iRacing.
But i have wind fans that are blowing which i always have to turn down or else it wont hear my commands

Does anyone have a suggestion as to a way to fix this?

Or maybe a recommendation for a mic that helps block wind noise somehow?

Any suggestion would be appreciated

[Pfeil]

Even for non-voice recognition applications, wind noise will have a massive impact. There's nothing you can do in software to remedy that (you can try to suppress the wind noise itself, but the voice data that isn't there won't come back).


Unless you want to wear a full-face helmet with a microphone inside, you'd have to use a windscreen on a good noise-cancelling microphone to try and mitigate this (but even then it's far from ideal).
You could look into something intended for paragliding or flying with an open cockpit, though they don't come with a regular 3.5mm connector; Or possibly something for open-face motorcycle helmets.

A throat microphone would also be unaffected by wind noise, but the sound quality is likely insufficient for voice recognition.

[MikeJeffries]

Thanks for that.