I’d like to introduce Hands Free Poker to the community. This is a piece of software that allows players to use voice recognition and also hotkeys to control the online poker tables. Currently we support Windows Vista and Windows 7 only, as we take advantage of the excellent voice engine in both of these operating systems. Sadly, Windows XP was neglected and Microsoft decided not to port their new voice engine back to Windows XP. A quality USB headset is highly recommended, you may find low quality voice recognition with analog (think small green plug) headsets.

The commands in HFP very much mirror what you can do with the mouse. Standard commands such as call, fold, raise, all in, etc are all present; however we also have a set of shortcut commands to allow the player to bet in terms of Big Blinds. The player can bet in terms of blinds by saying "xx blinds", with the number of blinds replacing "xx". You can say any digit from "2 blinds" up to "10 blinds" and then the system recognizes every five blinds after that, so "15 blinds", "20 blinds", "25 blinds", etc.

For instance, "8 blinds" will bet 8 times the big blind of the table you are on. There is a HFP shortcut help window that you can use for easy reference when you need to calculate how much "xx blinds" is for your table.

Further what’s really unique in this software is that you can set synonym commands for any command in HFP. For instance, the command to go to table 1 is "Table 1". You can set a synonym for the command "Table 1" to be "1" or "Main Table" anything else you would like. This lends itself to many possible customizations as the user see's fit.

You can download a trial of the latest version of the software here:

http://handsfreepoker.com/software/d...nds-free-poker

If you want gamepad support, that is where we utilize Pinnacle Game Profiler, to pass the commands from the gamepad to the HFP software. You can read more about how HFP works with PGP here:

http://handsfreepoker.com/software/w...iler-software/

We have tested the software on our machines and have everything working well. Having said that, with everyone’s unique hardware/software out there we are interested to find out the possible interactions (especially different languages). I'm all ears and will answer any questions/comments. We are looking forward to some excellent constructive feedback from this community!

Thanks,

Jeff

Very cool idea. Will def try it out.

Thanks, lemme know what you think

Posted a new video playing 4 tables of Full Tilt using only voice recognition. Let me know what you think!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPYo06soR90

Jeff

I like the controller idea, think im going to give it a shot. Since its only a 14 day trial do you know if you can easily change the controls? Can you create buttons for say 2x 3x 4x PFR and 30% 50% 70% pot post flop?

Am prob gonna play with it tonite.

Yes, you can change the controls within a Pinnacle profile. So for instance you can assign any commands in a profile to any of the buttons on the xbox controller. If you go to the HFP website, there is a FAQ with a preloaded HFP profile for Pinnacle where you can then just pick what commands to what button (see below screen).



If you want to get sophisticated you can also set commands to all sorts of other behaviors on the xbox 360 controller, such as different directions of the joypad (north, south, etc).

The most efficient way to bet with Hands Free Poker is to bet in terms of Big Blinds. You could preset buttons to be the 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 50 blinds buttons. These numbers are displayed on the right in a help window as well.

Jeff

Just tried this with the game pad and had some problems

A) Couldn't get pinnacle from your website, the link is broken. Just got it from google, not a big deal, but you should probably get it fixed.

B) Got it set up so that the controller would change the actions on the HFP program but would not control my tables. Although it did seem like it would change the tables back and forth but thats it.

C) Seems pretty glitchy. Sometimes when there was action it would cause the table to jump all over the place and the table would "split apart" (as a glitch) i guess for lack of better words.

D) Seemed like it was very laggy in the sense that it slowed my computer way down.


E) the 14 days or 18 execution is pretty LOL - I had to restart it like 5 times just trying to trouble shoot it to get it to work. Put a 14 day trial up, dont limit executions.

I did not try the voice command thing, which i think is probably the biggest idea behind this program. I probably could figure out the xbox controls if i spent more time or asked for help but due to the glitchyness as well as the lag I think im going to go another way. I think that charging for this program in the state that it is in is a bad idea and, from what I saw, there are some issues that need to be addressed. Maybe some of this is my computer or my fault, but I would say that you need a beta trial period to get help fixing these problems. I would be pretty pissed if I paid for it and had the experience I did last night.

Great idea for a program, best of luck. I would recommend anyone who is interested in this to give it a shot with the trial and see how it works before just buying it.

First off, great job on checking it out. Send me a PM and I'll give you a free license for your hardwork and reporting back what you found, I really appreciate it.

Now let me address your comments:

A) I'll fix the link, thanks
B) The best way to be sure that the HFP commands are working on your system is to try a few simple voice commands (like "call" or "fold") and check to be sure you see on the top right of the HFP bar a command recognized and a command executed. If the voice commands are working, then the controller will work, bottom line. The Pinnacle program basically just forwards shortcut (hotkey) commands to the HFP program, which then manipulates the tables. Pinnacle is just a utility a lot like xpadder, but I like it better.
C) By default the software will move to the next table whenever a command is successful. This can be toggled on/off in the preferences menu on the HFP bar. You can also program the "next table" command to an XBOX button and move from table to table like that. We are in the process of completing a build with automatic table switching and sensing urgent tables, etc, so look for that very soon.
D) I'd have to see this behavior to be sure what is happening here.
E) I'll change it to 14 days, not sure why I tried the number of executions, just took a flyer on the latest release, thanks for the comments on this one.

If you want as well I can access your machine remotely and much more easily troubleshoot your setup (its usually something small). If you're interested, download Team Viewer and PM me with your details and time you want to do a remote session and I can login and show you around.

Thanks again!

Jeff

This looks very interesting, I will certainly be downloading the trial and checking it out over the next few days and will post back my experiences with it after a trial run. Very good idea for a software package btw. If it functions decently I'm sure I'll be purchasing after trial

What happened with this? Still working? Looking for a solution for Zoom as its killing my wrists. Definitely willing to pay a lot for a working solution

+1
I would like a solution for lock poker or merge though.