Requirements¶

VoiceAttack¶

Obviously you will need to install VoiceAttack. There is a free trial version available, but that one is limited to a single profile and a few commands. This is 5 profiles and … a lot of commands. You will need the full version, available for $10 (official site) or €11.99 (Steam, IIRC $14.99 for our US-based friends).

I recommend buying on the site. Why? Because on Steam, Valve gets a 30% cut. Unlike many other developers Gary (the developer of VoiceAttack) remedies that by having a price on Steam that ends up paying $10 to him. So basically, you are paying Valve out of your own pocket. Many other developers do not do that, and by buying from them directly instead of on Steam you are literally giving them extra money. Please do keep that in mind in the future!

You also will generally need to opt into the beta version. I am usually at the forefront of bug reports and feature requests, and I do rely on the fixes/additions in beta versions quite often.

EDDI¶

EDDI is a companion application for Elite: Dangerous, providing responses to events that occur in-game using data from the game as well as various third-party tools. In this case, you will need to run it as a VoiceAttack plugin.

EDDI also regularly publishes beta versions. Unless a profiles release explicitly states it you will not have to run EDDI beta.

Do note that the profiles put EDDI into quiet mode by default, disabling the built-in speech responders. This can be changed via the EDDI quiet mode setting.

bindED¶

bindED reads your Elite Dangerous binding files and makes them available to VoiceAttack as variables. That way commands can be portable and you do not have to manually go through them and change any actions that you happen to not have the standard binds for.

This plugin is included in the release package. You do not have to download and install it manually, but you can independently update it if a newer version is available.

Elite Scripts¶

I have written a collection of Python scripts to interface with various 3ʳᵈ party services like EDSM or Spansh. Those are called by the profiles for various tasks, like checking a system’s body count.

In the future they will be replaced by VoiceAttack plugin code.

The scripts are included in the release package. You do not have to download and install them manually, but you can independently update them if a newer version is available.

ED-NeutronRouter¶

ED-NeutronRouter interfaces with Spansh’s neutron plotter and makes the result available to VoiceAttack.

This plugin is only required if you intend to use the SpanshAttack profile for neutron routing. Otherwise you do not have to install it.

This will also eventually be replaced by my own plugins.