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