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On Integrating Voice Commands Into Videogames

Posted by simoniker on from the stop-gripping-yr-joystick dept.

Thanks to GameSpot for its 'GameSpotting' editorial discussing ways future videogames can use the player's voice more creatively. The writer notes of Rainbow Six 3 on Xbox: "It's the headset that really roped me into this one. While it's often easier to key in your commands from the controller, that's just a lot less fun", and goes on to suggest: "I'd like to be able to have my own macros of my own entry patterns. Heck, it might be cool if they laughed at a joke I cracked. I want a game where I can get in a shouting match with a character in the game - real Gene Hackman or Al Pacino business is what I'm talking about here." How would you like to see voice control in videogames evolve, going forward?

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  1. Yelling at yourself? by JohnLi · · Score: 4, Funny

    What do you do when your girlfriend comes home and finds you yelling at yourself in front of the tv??

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    1. Re:Yelling at yourself? by fireduck · · Score: 3, Funny

      my wife got fed up with the "imaginary online people" yelling at me when I started playing Day of Defeat, so I went out and bought a headphone/mic combo. Now she freaks out when I start talking to myself in an otherwise quiet room.

      I don't think I want to have to talk to a game. It might be fun in some instances, but yelling at the game a la Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men would definitely raise eyebrows if anyone else was home.

    2. Re:Yelling at yourself? by nukem1999 · · Score: 5, Funny

      As if the average gamer doesn't do that without voice chat.

    3. Re:Yelling at yourself? by Captain+Splendid · · Score: 3, Funny
      Meh, my wife wouldn't have a problem with this as I'm constantly shouting at the TV, particularly when Bill O'Reilly is on.

      I mean, how else are you going to get it to be interactive?

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    4. Re:Yelling at yourself? by Atzanteol · · Score: 4, Funny

      What do you do when your girlfriend comes home and finds you yelling at yourself in front of the tv??

      Ask her who the hell she is and how she got in my house?

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    5. Re:Yelling at yourself? by JohnLi · · Score: 3, Funny

      Doh!

      Isn't that how penthouse letters start??

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  2. Are you sure? by Unknown+Kadath · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I want a game where I can get in a shouting match with a character in the game - real Gene Hackman or Al Pacino business is what I'm talking about here."

    Are you certain you want to lose arguments to video game characters? They'll have scriptwriters. You won't.

    -Carolyn

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  3. Glengarry Glen Ross: The Game by jmlyle · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, baby, that's what I'm talking about....

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  4. SOCOM voice activation by samsmithnz · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've played SOCOM 1 (not two yet), and had great fun yelling into the microphone in an American accent (it didn't understand my Kiwi accent). My flatmates would come home to find me talking to myself "Bravo attack at will" "Bravo ATTACK at will" "Damn it Bravo ATTACK AT WILL!!!" Good fun though once I got the accent right...

  5. One word problem for voice control by wowbagger · · Score: 2, Funny

    Consider the most common, vulgar single word utterance made by most gamers, usually when they are killed.

    Now, do you REALLY want your game to be voice controlled?

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  6. Well... by daVinci1980 · · Score: 2, Funny

    If...you...are...willing...to...yell...yell...YELL ...at ...the...game...at...about...this...speed......You ...might...be...able...to...have...an...in-game... conversation...conversation...con-ver-sation...wit h...it.

    Natural language processors kinda suck. :-)

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    1. Re:Well... by Ieshan · · Score: 2, Funny

      Captain Kirk Simulation!

      Spock... we seem to have stumbled... upon... a nebulous... galaxy which has no apparent reason... for existing... at all.

  7. Re:LifeLine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    In a tense situation, do you really want to be yelling "Shoot straight ahead. No, AHEAD. AHEAD!"

    You have shot yourself in the head. Insert 2 credits to continue.

  8. Finally! by Thedalek · · Score: 3, Funny

    A satisfying solution for all those people who already talk to the screen!

    "Don't go in there! Don't go in there!"

    "Hmm... I don't think I'll go in there right now."

    Then again, think of all the people who insult the on-screen character whenever they're doing badly.

    "Stupid @$%* Mario!"

    "Oh, yeah? Let's-a see you do any better, wise-a-guy!"

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