Announcement
Please note that with this release Mozzila DeepSpeech has been implemented to handle voice input on OVR Toolkit's keyboard. You can still switch back to Google Cloud 'for now' as it is much more accurate with its predictions, but... In the future, it will possibly be a $4.99 monthly fee to use Google Cloud instead, completely optional of course. Or, you'll need to link your own Google Cloud credentials.
Unfortunately it has to be like this because I totally underestimated how many people would use this feature! With the ever increasing amount of daily users, and as a result, ever increasing amount of users using the voice input... The current Google Cloud fees I have to pay are around $600+ per month! Which before you ask, no, your $11.99 does not cover that very well. ;)
Voice input may be less accurate with this update and there may be an upcoming $4.99 monthly fee if you want to improve the accuracy again by switching back to Google Cloud. This is completely optional and DeepSpeech is free and open source, you do not need to pay to use it - Free stuff is fine, but Google ain't making nothing fee any time soon.
On a brighter note...
This update includes many of the changes you guys requested we make through the recent feedback form we posted on Discord! Thanks so much for your feedback, please continue to let me know what you'd like to see changed!
15-03-2021
Added:
- Added Simulator Mode tutorial.
- Added support for Mozzila DeepSpeech voice input API.
- Added menu to select between different voice input APIs.
- Added download voice model menu for DeepSpeech.
- Added gear icon to voice input bar to quickly access settings.
- Added config.json entry for 'SingleClickEditMode', toggles windows on/off with a single click of the binding instead of double. (This isn't possible through the bindings due to a SteamVR bug)
- Added 'Get content' and 'Select content' buttons to Workshop menus to switch between subscribing to items and activating them.
- Added language icon to keyboard controls, this will open the Workshop menu.
- Added keyboard toggle VR controllers binding. (Unbound by default)
- Added missing translations.
Changes:
- Who turned the lights off?
- Overhauled Global Settings.
- The king is dead, long live the king! Launcher is 'gone', Settings window handles application launching now.
- Fixed an issue that caused various wrist overlay errors when more than 5 tracked devices are connected.
- Installer no longer required the user to press enter, installation is automated now. (Task doesn't run in the background anymore, thus the warning isn't required anymore)
- Google Cloud voice input should now be faster for none-English languages. (No longer uses English as an alternate language)
- Block input to applications is now enabled by default whilst windows toggled on.
- Removed preset locking option as it has been replaced by edit mode toggle.
Bug fixes:
- Potential fix for a startup crash. (Send log files if you still get crashes on toggling edit mode!)
- Tried to improve update rate of wrist overlay from application sleep to avoid a second or two delay before the time updates.
- Fixed various launcher and installer related issues.
- Explorer.EXE should no longer be ignored if it was intentionally captured versus an open folder with the same name as the application being found.
- Fixed not all Workshop backgrounds appearing in the subscribed items menu in Global Settings. (Due to a tagging issue with the Workshop)
- Hopefully improved file saving reliability for some users. (Added cache busting stuff)
- Fixed some Head Gaze input issues when using desktop captures.
- Fixed being able to move windows outside of Edit Mode when the keyboard was locked.