[2020] PINNED: Guide: Voice Recognition

Here are some steps you can take to fix the voice recognition. This will get updated as more info is found.

Please make sure you don't skip a step.

1. Make sure your input device on windows is the microphone you want to use.
2. Go into "Speech Settings" on windows and download and install the English US language package. This will install the necessary voice recognition drivers.
3. In "Speech Settings" at the top check the box "Recognise non-native accents for this language".
4. Select your language as your voice language.
5. Under language settings click on your language, go to options and then download the speech package.
6. Go into "Online Speech Recognition" on windows and make sure that is turned on.
7. Go into "Microphone privacy settings" and make sure Phasmophobia has permission to use your microphone.
8. Go to "Cortana Language Settings" and apply your language at the bottom.
9. Update your windows 10. Go to "Check for updates" and make sure you are on version 2004.
10. Do not run Steam as Admin. For some reason this is breaking the voice recognition.
11. Head into the "other" page in options on the main menu and set your voice language there.
12. Go to the audio options in the main menu and use the voice recognition test to check if it is working.
13. If it still isn't working some people have got it working by moving the game onto their main hard drive.
14. Make sure no other application on your computer is taking control of your microphone before playing.
15. If it still doesn't work at this point try using the English UK voice pack instead.

Please make sure your voice recognition is setup and working in Windows 10.

Originally posted by SUPERIOR MAN OF WONGUS WORDS:

Originally posted by Kinetic Games: Here are some steps you can take to fix the voice recognition. This will get updated as more info is found.

1. Make sure your input device on windows is the microphone you want to use.
2. Go into "Speech Settings" on windows and download and install the English US language package. This will install the necessary voice recognition drivers.
3. In "Speech Settings" at the top check the box "Recognise non-native accents for this language".
4. Go into "Online Speech Recognition" on windows and make sure that is turned on.
5. Go into "Microphone privacy settings" and make sure Phasmophobia has permission to use your microphone.
6. Update your windows 10.
7. Make sure you are not running Steam as admin. This breaks it for some reason.
8. Go to the audio options in the main menu and use the voice recognition test to check if it is working.

Please make sure your voice recognition is setup and working in Windows 10.

Any steps for this on Win 7?

Voice recognition doesn't work on Windows 7, the minimum requirements for this game is Windows 10 however I am going to look into a way of being able to use the Spirit Box without voice recognition however I can't give a date on when this will be out.

Originally posted by {Macabre 737}: I've tried all of the steps above and ran steam as non administrator, idk what else to do. When i load the game and go to audio settings, it says no microphone detected, i scroll over to my mic hit apply, test voice recognition, and it says "Error: voice recognition is not setup on your pc correctly.

Originally posted by Hex: I can get the voice recognition to work in the settings menu when I first launch the game, but when the actual game starts it's only actually worked about 25% of the time. When it doesn't, when I go back to the settings it shows no mic detected, and even when I reselect it the test phrase no longer works.

Hey, the "no microphone detected" is a bug which will get fixed in the next update. The voice recognition not working is a Windows 10 issue, I have posted what I know in the "voice recognition" pinned post, please make sure you follow it exactly. I will update it if more information is found.

Originally posted by Rubeus Swagrid:

Originally posted by Kinetic Games:

Voice recognition doesn't work on Windows 7, the minimum requirements for this game is Windows 10 however I am going to look into a way of being able to use the Spirit Box without voice recognition however I can't give a date on when this will be out.

Just throwing an idea here but what if there was a button that had a very basic preset of questions(think like the Z button in Counter Strike), that you could enable in the options or something, even as a temporary solution.
Personally I'm on Win10 but I know a lot of people still on 7.

In the next update people who have not set up their voice recognition or are on a system that doesn't support it, then all they need to do is talk to the Spirit Box and it will respond after a time.

Originally posted by ViciousDREAM: I have a similar problem, i scroll over to my mic, apply, go to check for other players but nobody can hear me and when i come back it says no microphone detected... When i do the test everything is okay...it deactivates itself...

This is a bug that is fixed in the beta build. There are a few bugs left and then I will push it to the default build.