Quickstart Guide

Installation

Download the ZIP file for HOSCY
Unpack it and start the executable
If needed install .NET Runtime (It should ask you to)
Allow firewall and make sure your antivirus is not complaining
Turn on OSC in your radial menu in VRChat and rejoin the instance
HOSCY is ready to go, just press the button labeled "Stopped" to start recognition

I highly recommend immediately switching from the "Windows Recognizer" to the "Vosk AI Recognizer" as it is much better.

Download an AI model here
- If you have 5/6 GB of RAM you don't need I recommend going for vosk-model-en-us-0.22
- Otherwise use the weaker version with way less RAM usage vosk-model-en-us-0.22-lgraph
- Alternatively you could also go for a middle ground with vosk-model-en-us-daanzu-20200905
Unzip the files
Go to the "Speech" Page and press the button "Edit list" next to the "Vosk Model" dropdown
Add the path of the folder containing all files, close the window and select the model in the dropdown
That's it. Starting these usually takes a while so make sure you set the correct microphone

HOSCY has multiple "pages" with different settings and usages

Main contains all your information and allows you to quickly mute, clear and stop recognition
Input features a manual input box with configurable presets
Speech contains all settings related to speech recognition including shortcuts and replacements, as well as the recognizer picker
API is all about external services like translation or remote speech recognition
Output contains all settings about the textbox and TTS
OSC lets you control your OSC parameters and routing
Config mostly includes logging information

Shortcuts and Replacements on the "Speech" page let you replace words with other words and let you trigger commands. Replacement looks for certain words and replaces them with others and Shortcuts does the same but replaces the entire message instead
Voice Commands allow you to do things like clearing your textbox with "clear" or control your currently playing media with "media skip", "media pause", "media resume" and more
Media Display display what you are currently listening to above your head (on output page)
OSC Commands let you control OSC parameters using for example your voice
OSC Parameters let you control HOSCY via your avatars radial