Testing

Commandos 2 in Spanish: 13 phrases failed, and two wanted the same fix

I ran all 147 Commandos 2 voice commands in Spanish through the recognizer. 13 failed, and two sounded the same: 'pala' and 'parar' both came back as 'para'.

64 of 249 phrases came back wrong. That was the easy game

How voice commands get misheard in games: I ran 249 phrases from two EchoControl profiles through the recognizer before playing. 64 came back wrong.

Saying a character's name was triggering the crouch command. Here's how that happens

Testing Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun turned into a crash course on how speech recognition mishears game character names — and what it takes to fix it.

Not every voice command survives testing. Here's the one that didn't

Commandos 2 needed multiple ways to say the same command before any of them shipped — and one already-planned command got pulled the same week it was added, because it wasn't reliable enough.