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Pretendo on 29 September 2008

Voice recognition is in the game not the hardware.



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Teoulas on 29 September 2008
bdbdbd said:

@yushire: It actually has somekind of "box" with it, which i asume having the things firmware and sound processing stuff.

It's probably some sound processing circuitry. It has to cancel out TV audio. Voice recognition would be software-based like everyone said.



wfz on 29 September 2008

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thekitchensink on 29 September 2008

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Hookman on 29 September 2008
famousringo said:
yushire said:
its just only a speaker microphone thats in top of your TV though, nothing new just a speaker microphone... SO NO.

 

Why not? All that's missing is the software. This would ship with the game, not the device itself, obviously.

Voice recognition is tricky business, of course. And even if it didn't have problems with false positives and correct interpretation, not everybody is going to want to control a game by yelling at it.

Of all the times games have tried to implement voice as an input, the only use that's been a major success has been when it's used to communicate with other humans.

 

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kitler53 on 29 September 2008

i have to agree - done right it could be really cool. done incorrectly it could be very frustrating...i'd guess the software development isn't nearly well developed enough to make it worth while at this point.

i remember when telephone operators started using voice command operation. it really sucked at first but it has definetly gotten better. not perfect but better.



shams on 29 September 2008

Ninty have been working on voice recog for over a year now, and at some point after WiiSpeak ships - we'll get a firmware update that adds voice support to the channels (at least). That is essentially the real focus of the hardware - making voice commands possible, without having to hold a microphone.

They are also working on the opposite - getting the Wii to talk to you.

The one example they quoted (again, this was ages ago) was starting the new channel, getting the Wii to "read" the news to you - and you driving it via voice commands.

If the DS can do it with its "crappy" mic (i.e. Brain Training, Cooking Guide) the Wii can definitely do it.



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RPG_Fanatic on 29 September 2008

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coasterlove on 30 September 2008

It would be cool but for some reason, I doubt it will happen this generation. And while the idea is a good one, it wouldn't make a Jeopordy game any better.



I'll come up with something better eventually...

bdbdbd on 30 September 2008

@Teoulas: It could be a built-in feature in the hardware and software it comes with. If Nintendo has plans for voice recognition, most logical thing to do would be to put as much software as possible with Wii Speak (and the hardware could work on voice recognition along with standard Wii hardware for additional processing power.



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