Just wanted to say hello as I have now joined the ranks of those with a license key for the best-kept secret in the gaming world, i.e. totally affordable, well-packaged voice control for any and all games.
I was going to roll my own VoRec solution using Arduino hardware, like Audeme or EasyVR. But then someone clued me in to VA and of course when I saw the price, it was like "what was I thinking?" Huge props to the dev for a well thought out UI, a really good manual, and a rock-solid useful tool at a very reasonable price.
My immediate application is a driving game (Euro Truck Simulator) which for several years now I've been using as a
(link) road cycling sim. My custom controller (that turns the bike plus trainer stand into a game controller) now has a touch screen (not shown in the video which was the prototype). Obviously a touch screen is even worse than buttons when you've got a headset on your face!
So I'm now very happily training VA to do all the game commands that my custom touchscreen interface provided. Looks like I can even do console commands, which is awesome as I do use some console tricks now and then. I spent about 40 minutes on a ride through northern France yesterday in beautiful immersive 3D, doing everything with voice commands, and it was fantastic -- everything I had hoped it would be. Reliable (never had a refused command) and dead simple to configure (the UI is great).
If anyone else is wondering, the Q2 mic works fine for training windows voice recognition and for voice-controlled gaming. It adequately rejects the headset built-in audio and the ambient noise from the trainer stand.
I think it's a particular strong point of VA that a rank n00b can get it working within a few minutes, unlike many overlays and hacks for gaming (I gave up on Vorpx because life is too short). Great work, deserves some kind of internet award.