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The idea for voice recognition is simple, you speak and the conssole/pc understands. Up yo now this technique is used very little. You can get software for your PC that composes a WP document without you having to type.
Would voice recognition be any use to console games? Or would it take the fun out of gaming?
This kind of technique is being used a little in Japan. The Japanese version of Greatest Striker is able to understand certain Japanese commands for commands like shoot, pass. But like most things we wont get this option in the UK.
Im not sure if voice recognition is the future yet, once we can get the technology to fully understand speech then it would be benificial to developers to include an option like this.
I also don't see many games that this would greatly improve, I can't see how shouting at the screen can make it more fun, it maybe makes it seem more real but not fun.
We would need to buy voice recognition peripherals, and how many developers are going to take the risk of using this in a game? Remember not every person has perfectly understandable speech.
So is this thenext step for console gaming? Maybe not. What about the inclusion of smells. One American company DigiScents have produced a small box which contains chemicals that can be mixed in different ways to form such smells as burning rubber(for games like GT3), and rotting flesh (Resident evil or Onimusha come to mind ofr that one). This device plugs in to a USB port, but would it really improve games or just annoy you greatly and make your room stink for days. I think this kind of idea of smells would be good if/when Virtual Reality becomes popular. If you are placed in a virtual world and can see things around you and you feel "part of the game" then having smells would make you feel even more part of it. But for now i don't think its really worth having for an ordinary games console.
only time will tell if these techniques will be popular. But like most things if the gamers will buy them then more developers will include options for them in their games.
Would voice recognition be any use to console games? Or would it take the fun out of gaming?
This kind of technique is being used a little in Japan. The Japanese version of Greatest Striker is able to understand certain Japanese commands for commands like shoot, pass. But like most things we wont get this option in the UK.
Im not sure if voice recognition is the future yet, once we can get the technology to fully understand speech then it would be benificial to developers to include an option like this.
I also don't see many games that this would greatly improve, I can't see how shouting at the screen can make it more fun, it maybe makes it seem more real but not fun.
We would need to buy voice recognition peripherals, and how many developers are going to take the risk of using this in a game? Remember not every person has perfectly understandable speech.
So is this thenext step for console gaming? Maybe not. What about the inclusion of smells. One American company DigiScents have produced a small box which contains chemicals that can be mixed in different ways to form such smells as burning rubber(for games like GT3), and rotting flesh (Resident evil or Onimusha come to mind ofr that one). This device plugs in to a USB port, but would it really improve games or just annoy you greatly and make your room stink for days. I think this kind of idea of smells would be good if/when Virtual Reality becomes popular. If you are placed in a virtual world and can see things around you and you feel "part of the game" then having smells would make you feel even more part of it. But for now i don't think its really worth having for an ordinary games console.
only time will tell if these techniques will be popular. But like most things if the gamers will buy them then more developers will include options for them in their games.
thats nasty
Goatboy wrote:
> He ran off with his nurse you know.
(Well, slowly trundled
> off)
Ran off?!? ...
Where did he run to? ... From the East wing of Oxford Uni to the West?
He must have used one hell of a disguse ...
'I'm not Stephen Hawkins you dirty blighter... Now Shut Up or I will set my Darleks on you!'
> He ran off with his nurse you know.
(Well, slowly trundled
> off)
Ran off?!? ...
Where did he run to? ... From the East wing of Oxford Uni to the West?
He must have used one hell of a disguse ...
'I'm not Stephen Hawkins you dirty blighter... Now Shut Up or I will set my Darleks on you!'
He ran off with his nurse you know.
(Well, slowly trundled off)
This guy must have a sense of humour the size of a donkey's, because I dont get why.
Wonder what he sounds like when he's aroused?
(this is headed somewhere dark and uncharted)
(Well, slowly trundled off)
This guy must have a sense of humour the size of a donkey's, because I dont get why.
Wonder what he sounds like when he's aroused?
(this is headed somewhere dark and uncharted)
Goatboy wrote:
> Essentially yes.
> And a Speak and Spell
Really? ... If you spell the word incorrectly... does he drool over you as punishment?
(by this i dont mean the word 'incorrectly'. I mean the word which is spoken and that you are then supposed to correctly spell... Should the word 'incorrectly' be given as the word. Then I would mean the word 'incorrectly'... But what I'm really refering to is any given word, that has been provided, by speak and spell, as a spelling challenge, and which has been then failed by the provision from the challengee of an incorect spelling)
> Essentially yes.
> And a Speak and Spell
Really? ... If you spell the word incorrectly... does he drool over you as punishment?
(by this i dont mean the word 'incorrectly'. I mean the word which is spoken and that you are then supposed to correctly spell... Should the word 'incorrectly' be given as the word. Then I would mean the word 'incorrectly'... But what I'm really refering to is any given word, that has been provided, by speak and spell, as a spelling challenge, and which has been then failed by the provision from the challengee of an incorect spelling)
Essentially yes.
And a Speak and Spell
And a Speak and Spell
Goatboy wrote:
> Stephen Hawkins has been doing this for years
So what your saying here... Just to get it striaght in my head... Is that Stephen Hawkins, is, infact, little more than a giant portable 'Hey You Pickachu' game?
> Stephen Hawkins has been doing this for years
So what your saying here... Just to get it striaght in my head... Is that Stephen Hawkins, is, infact, little more than a giant portable 'Hey You Pickachu' game?
Stephen Hawkins has been doing this for years
Gaming-wise, it was Hey You, Pikachu that brought VRS's to new levels... although it had a simple concept and few fancy gadgets and options it did the trick and for Pokémon fans and sadists everywhere, Hey You, Pikachu was a hit!
I think, with all the developements in arcades around now, VRS's will pop-up all over the place and they'll grow in popularity VERY quickly. Whether or not they'll make it to the US let alone over here is something we can only hope for.
There is a place in the future for this sort of thing... let's hope it's sooner rather than later!
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I think, with all the developements in arcades around now, VRS's will pop-up all over the place and they'll grow in popularity VERY quickly. Whether or not they'll make it to the US let alone over here is something we can only hope for.
There is a place in the future for this sort of thing... let's hope it's sooner rather than later!
Game
The idea for voice recognition is simple, you speak and the conssole/pc understands. Up yo now this technique is used very little. You can get software for your PC that composes a WP document without you having to type.
Would voice recognition be any use to console games? Or would it take the fun out of gaming?
This kind of technique is being used a little in Japan. The Japanese version of Greatest Striker is able to understand certain Japanese commands for commands like shoot, pass. But like most things we wont get this option in the UK.
Im not sure if voice recognition is the future yet, once we can get the technology to fully understand speech then it would be benificial to developers to include an option like this.
I also don't see many games that this would greatly improve, I can't see how shouting at the screen can make it more fun, it maybe makes it seem more real but not fun.
We would need to buy voice recognition peripherals, and how many developers are going to take the risk of using this in a game? Remember not every person has perfectly understandable speech.
So is this thenext step for console gaming? Maybe not. What about the inclusion of smells. One American company DigiScents have produced a small box which contains chemicals that can be mixed in different ways to form such smells as burning rubber(for games like GT3), and rotting flesh (Resident evil or Onimusha come to mind ofr that one). This device plugs in to a USB port, but would it really improve games or just annoy you greatly and make your room stink for days. I think this kind of idea of smells would be good if/when Virtual Reality becomes popular. If you are placed in a virtual world and can see things around you and you feel "part of the game" then having smells would make you feel even more part of it. But for now i don't think its really worth having for an ordinary games console.
only time will tell if these techniques will be popular. But like most things if the gamers will buy them then more developers will include options for them in their games.
Would voice recognition be any use to console games? Or would it take the fun out of gaming?
This kind of technique is being used a little in Japan. The Japanese version of Greatest Striker is able to understand certain Japanese commands for commands like shoot, pass. But like most things we wont get this option in the UK.
Im not sure if voice recognition is the future yet, once we can get the technology to fully understand speech then it would be benificial to developers to include an option like this.
I also don't see many games that this would greatly improve, I can't see how shouting at the screen can make it more fun, it maybe makes it seem more real but not fun.
We would need to buy voice recognition peripherals, and how many developers are going to take the risk of using this in a game? Remember not every person has perfectly understandable speech.
So is this thenext step for console gaming? Maybe not. What about the inclusion of smells. One American company DigiScents have produced a small box which contains chemicals that can be mixed in different ways to form such smells as burning rubber(for games like GT3), and rotting flesh (Resident evil or Onimusha come to mind ofr that one). This device plugs in to a USB port, but would it really improve games or just annoy you greatly and make your room stink for days. I think this kind of idea of smells would be good if/when Virtual Reality becomes popular. If you are placed in a virtual world and can see things around you and you feel "part of the game" then having smells would make you feel even more part of it. But for now i don't think its really worth having for an ordinary games console.
only time will tell if these techniques will be popular. But like most things if the gamers will buy them then more developers will include options for them in their games.