Microsoft denies voice control missing at Kinect launch

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mike_intellivision said:

daroamer said:

mike_intellivision said:

Decisions are still probably being made about what will and will not be included at launch.

My guess is that there will be some limited voice control -- because there would be too much complaining (as well as investigating) if there were not.

Mike from Morgantown

This makes no sense.  AFAIK the voice recognition is being done using software that Microsoft has had for years and is using in the current versions of Windows.  It's not like they developed this just for Kinect.  Why do you think it all of a sudden doesn't work?  Do you think all the videos and demonstrations have been fake?

Microsoft fake a presentation ... never. /sarcasm.  (Microsoft invented "smoke and mirrors" demos).

Any recognition software with which I have ever worked has required "training" the software to recognize the speaker's voice (or person's hand writing).   The issue becomes whether or not the average Kinect user will be able to have their comments recognized. 

By limited, I meant a small vocabulary or a small set of languages recognized. Remember, this is not a product for one country or specialized places. In Europe, it would have to recognize English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Spanish, German, Dutch, etc.  So that will not be a small task -- and could explain the confusion over voice recognition on what will be implemented and what will not be.

If you expect Kinect to be fully fluent in every language at launch, ... 

 

Mike from Morgantown

It understood me just fine without training at the Kinect Demo in Canton OH.  As long as you don't need to use complete sentences your fine.  Ever used a phone where everything is automated?  They work well in English and Spanish so I don't see where any training is needed for basic operations.