Voice Recognition for the Wii?

Posted Aug 14, 2006 at 4:45PM by QJ Staff Listed in: Wii Tags: headset
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Who wouldn't want that right? But don't get your hopes up just yet, this is just a rumor that someone from IGN's Insider forums have dropped on us. Apparently, this person has been right about the speaker in the Wii controller, so let us all hope that lightning strikes twice. Here's what the "insider" had to say on the forums:Wii
  •  Â…voice communication will be via wireless, head-mounted microphonesÂ…
  •  Some peripherals for the DS will be compatible with Wii and vice-versa.
  • Many Nintendo first party games (specifically games designed for a younger audience) will feature a new system currently being developed by Nintendo called ‘voice to text communication.Â’
  • The system works using an advanced voice recognition system which Nintendo has been developing for several years. When a user speaks the sound is converted into on screen text and sent to the other players. However, rather than just plain text being sent the system also picks up the tone, pitch and volume of the voice and translates that into colour, font size and character set. For example, if a player shouts ‘I winÂ’ loudly into the microphone the on screen text may be all capitalized, and in a large red font; conversely if a player speaks quietly the font may be a pastel shade and smaller.
  • This system also allows online voice communication to be easily censored by the user.


 
 
 

Comments

by - 2006-08-14 18:05:55
intresting

Sounds fun hope it works
by - 2006-08-14 18:37:51
Fake

Sorry you guys. Its fake. I made this thread to f with people. Besides Nintendo already said they weren't going to have any voice recog for the Wii anytime soon
by - 2006-08-14 18:45:33
maybe

they did say they will have a headset of somekind
by - 2006-08-14 18:50:00
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Yeah, probably fake, but not such a bad idea either. Voice chat on Xbox Live is horrendous. I don't wont squeaky-voiced kids calling me a F**king c**ksucking N**ga lover while playing halo. Text would be much less intrusive, and much easier censored. Even the font styling idea sounds great. Who knows if this will be implemented one day, the technology is certainly there to do so. I'd even like it to be optional on all three next-gen consoles.
by - 2006-08-14 23:30:03
Good Idea

Good idea. Alot easyier to do as well. Doubt it will happen on launch tho but you never know. Only thing with that is. Characters (the text and stuff) I have a friend who is teaching english over seas in japan and id be playing games with him and hopefully in English Characters. That and the fact that reading takes valuable time in FPS games where as you could just be like ' Sniper in tower ' and let the player hear you would be alot better then a little text popping up.
by - 2006-08-15 07:18:50
good and Bad

Voice chat can be good and bad on Live. Good as in Private chat to friends and playing online in small groups. 1vs1 2vs2. Once you start getting more it just becomes annoying as Timmy A pointed out. But you will get weiners on any console.
by - 2006-08-15 08:45:10


Seems to me like a great idea, even if its not true i hope they come up with something like that.

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