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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Blind-friendly and good use of audio | #21 | 2.661 | 3.167 |
| Fun gameplay | #21 | 2.591 | 3.083 |
| Setting, story, characters, and world | #24 | 1.400 | 1.667 |
Ranked from 12 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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I was having issues getting the voice capture to work correctly consistently - I was happy when I could move the pawn, but black took a really long time, and then it kept reading my pieces instead of letting me move my knight.
It would have been super valuable to have the listed pieces and codes (Alpha, Bravo, Charlie) on the screen. Really was excited to try playing chess with my voice (although I doubt that I could keep track of everything in my head if I was playing blind 😅
Yeah, I had that idea with labeling the chessboard too, and forgot it ^^ Thanks for reminding me.
Concerning misunderstandings of the voice recognition engine, you can try to train it so it fits your pronounciation:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/use-voice-recognition-in-windows-83f...
To make black react faster, you can edit nodes.txt and set it to a lower value. It will make the chess engine less powerfull, though.
All things considered, I could probably use a less powerful chess opponent 🤣
Voice Chess 2.0 is a chess game with accessibility in mind. It is controlled through voice recognition, and has got text to speech capabilities.
The chess engine lc0 is used for the other player's moves.
Voice recognition and output gets processed through the Windows Speech SDK.
The english version uses the nato alphabet for naming columns, the german one uses "anton", "berta" etc. and the term "zwo" for the number two.
Please install the redistributional files from "VoiceChess 2.0 prerequisites.zip" before running the program.
To change the language to german, edit "language.txt" and replace "en" with "de".
Requirements: Windows 10/11
Windows speech recognition with english language has got to be activated
Windows text to speech with english language has got to be activated
The redistributional files from "VoiceChess 2.0 prerequisites.zip" have got to be installed
The following versions are available:
VoiceChess Geforce RTX for newer NVidia cards
VoiceChess Geforce GTX for older NVidia cards
VoiceChess ATI Radeon for AMD cards
VoiceChess CPU for CPU processing (older PCs without 3D graphics)
There are five difficulty levels:
beginner game: elo 200
easy game: elo 700
medium game: elo 1100
hard game: elo 1600
expert game: elo 2200