Nintendo expanding dev tools for Wii - fur shading, predictive input, text to speech

[shams]

Kwaad said: shams said: Something like... "we have a new text to speech application that sounds like this." "I'm so sexy sounding ohhh yeah." and then I would say. Holy crap amazing. These are all things that have been done in the past, are being done today on every home console. This might be amazing if it was for the DS or PSP... but wait!!! My PSP has fur shading. So even that for a handheld wouldnt be very impressive. My point is, when your trying to impress someone with technology news... it's better to find something 'new'. Playing news that happend 5 years ago, and saying it's new... is pointless.

Its NOT a technology article - its a TOOLS article. They aren't saying "Wow - we have managed to work out text --> speech" - that would be a laugh. The news is that the tools *every* Wii developer will have access to, will have this functionality/libraries built-in. And that is very much a positive.