When you want to talk to another person you tend to turn towards them and speak, I expect people would behave the same way with a computer. Why don't hardware developers design computers with stereo mics that's a little apart like human ears, and use a little signal processing circuitry so the computer can work out if it's being spoken to or not? I don't know how feasible that is, but it sounds like a simple thing to do compared to getting software to learn a person's voice characteristics.
Also why do these app developers think that voice command *necessarily* need to consist of commands in plain English (or any other human language)? I really want some sort of plugin for my media player that'll allow simple commands to be entered by whistling, for example say I want it to play, instead of saying in a flat monotone voice 'computer, play' or something silly, I clap twice (to get the computer's attention), and whistle two notes a major third apart, another command can then be a fourth, a fifth etc (so the user doesn't need to have perfect pitch). That would be far more reliable as command input, the user won't sound like a wally, and easier(?) to implement in software.
Pls pls any talented developers here take this idea up!
You're right in your guess on what I meant by highbrow people, but there lies the exact problem because as you said yourself that's the current view of what highbrow culture is. There is your own view, and there is the publics view, which is going to dominate? It is not about how sophisticated a game is but whether this group of people like it (or pretend to like it), but they don't have a good thing to say about any video game.
Your friends and yourself are not examples of what I was referring to as highbrow people. I wasn't saying liking Opera was the sole domain of the highbrow, everyone can like it, but because the snobs consider it 'proper entertainment', it becomes in the publics eye a highbrow thing. You form your own opinions on what is "high brow" and sophisticated, but your views are not going to move the highbrow ppls perception (and therefore the public ideas on highbrow culture) of video games. What the current view of upper class culture is is completely relevant to why no games are generally considered to be highbrow.
"highbrow" games don't exist because the highbrow ppl don't like playing them! honestly how many people which in your opinion is upper class and posh enjoys playing video games? they all have better things to do to pass their spare time (theatre, opera, have their little socializing parties etc) then sitting infront of a PC pressing buttons.
how a game is perceived has nothing to do with whether if the game is intellectually stimulating or artistic (there are many games that are like that that the guy who wrote TA prob didn't know existed) but all to do with what sort of ppl likes it.
Liking Shakespeare and Mozart and enjoying blowing up aliens aren't mutually exclusive pasttimes for a person to have, but if you're one, then you're definitely not qualified to say whether something is highbrow or not, thats the job of the elite (and who cares what they think is 'proper' entertainment).
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When you want to talk to another person you tend to turn towards them and speak, I expect people would behave the same way with a computer. Why don't hardware developers design computers with stereo mics that's a little apart like human ears, and use a little signal processing circuitry so the computer can work out if it's being spoken to or not? I don't know how feasible that is, but it sounds like a simple thing to do compared to getting software to learn a person's voice characteristics.
Also why do these app developers think that voice command *necessarily* need to consist of commands in plain English (or any other human language)? I really want some sort of plugin for my media player that'll allow simple commands to be entered by whistling, for example say I want it to play, instead of saying in a flat monotone voice 'computer, play' or something silly, I clap twice (to get the computer's attention), and whistle two notes a major third apart, another command can then be a fourth, a fifth etc (so the user doesn't need to have perfect pitch). That would be far more reliable as command input, the user won't sound like a wally, and easier(?) to implement in software.
Pls pls any talented developers here take this idea up!Mod dupe snowflake -1 redundant
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You're right in your guess on what I meant by highbrow people, but there lies the exact problem because as you said yourself that's the current view of what highbrow culture is. There is your own view, and there is the publics view, which is going to dominate? It is not about how sophisticated a game is but whether this group of people like it (or pretend to like it), but they don't have a good thing to say about any video game.
Your friends and yourself are not examples of what I was referring to as highbrow people. I wasn't saying liking Opera was the sole domain of the highbrow, everyone can like it, but because the snobs consider it 'proper entertainment', it becomes in the publics eye a highbrow thing. You form your own opinions on what is "high brow" and sophisticated, but your views are not going to move the highbrow ppls perception (and therefore the public ideas on highbrow culture) of video games. What the current view of upper class culture is is completely relevant to why no games are generally considered to be highbrow.
can't help laughing at the thought of that ;-P
not an avid gamer myself but here is my view...
"highbrow" games don't exist because the highbrow ppl don't like playing them! honestly how many people which in your opinion is upper class and posh enjoys playing video games? they all have better things to do to pass their spare time (theatre, opera, have their little socializing parties etc) then sitting infront of a PC pressing buttons.
how a game is perceived has nothing to do with whether if the game is intellectually stimulating or artistic (there are many games that are like that that the guy who wrote TA prob didn't know existed) but all to do with what sort of ppl likes it.
Liking Shakespeare and Mozart and enjoying blowing up aliens aren't mutually exclusive pasttimes for a person to have, but if you're one, then you're definitely not qualified to say whether something is highbrow or not, thats the job of the elite (and who cares what they think is 'proper' entertainment).