So I’ve recently decided to try and see if I could get WSR to work in online games for the chat windows.  I just set it up a few days ago, running on Windows 7 and also installed the Macro pack as well.  In windows it appears to work just fine.  I read it a few pages from the current book (Wheel of Time series) I'm reading to see how it works and it did quite well.  So at the end of this month I will be getting an Oculus Rift, and figured that while wearing it typing in game chat windows would make that a lot easier.  Thought I would try and get things setup before it arrives.  I have no issues typing when I can’t see the keyboard, however the initial orientation of finding the keyboard while effectively blind could be a bit off.  So I figured this would make things more effective.  And it does work a little bit.

I’ve tried 2 games so far (WoW and FFXIV) and they do have same problem, as well as the Steam chat window too.  Once I am in the game WSR still listens to me and I can give it commands and it will follow them.  Like I can say “Open Notepad” and it will tab out of the game and open a Notepad window.  Using the macro tool I can say something like “Action Raise” and it will cast my resurrection spell on my target too.  This was not my intended function, but it is something I think I can eventually get some use out of, so that’s neat. So commands work fine, however it will not take speech dictation at all for some reason.

When I say “enter” it presses enter which does active the chat window and I get a blinking cursor, which is normal.  However if then I follow it up with something like “Hello everyone” then the little WSR window just says “What was that?” as if I was trying to give it a command that it didn’t recognize.  I can pre-program in macros to make canned phrases if I want to, so I can do something like “enter Greeting #1 enter” and it will say “Hello everyone” in my guild chat.  Again handy if there is something I have to type often, especially if it is long.  But nowhere near what I was hoping for.  If I say “enter press h press e press l press l press o enter” then it will do Hello in my guild chat, however that is certainly not effective at all.

I’ve looked around the settings, I’ve even tried running WSR as an administrator as I have had a few other programs that worked better while in games if I did that with no effect.  However I can find no way around this particular issue.  Is there a way around this, or a cause that I can work around.  Are there any other applications that have this similar issue?  After all I noticed that in the Steam chat it does the same thing and that really isn’t any different than google chat (which works fine).

Any tips or setting changes I can make I’ll certainly give it a try.  Thank you for anything that might be helpful.  Also let me know if there is any other information I can provide.  :)

Shaun