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[Joe]

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http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050531_175740.html
"The platform will allow software developers to add voice control capability to their games. Fonix said that a typical application of the technology requires about 300 KByte of space and about nine percent of processor bandwidth. Users will be able to use the voice recognition feature in games right away without special sessions to train the software."

http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/8400/Xbox-360-to-Feature-Fonix-Voice-Technology/
"Fonix Speech, an operating division of Fonix Corp., an integrated communications carrier providing telecommunications services and value-added speech technologies, announced an agreement to continue to deliver Fonix voice command technology to the Xbox 360 videogame and entertainment system from Microsoft."



rainbow six3, blackhawk down, and swat: global team strike (probably a couple others too) use fonix voice recognition in their xbox games.

 

[mrklaw]

NINE PERCENT?!?!?!

Is that of a PC processor, or of a 3-core, 3.2GHZ uber-processor? Thats 9 Gigaflops if 360 has a 100GFlop CPU. Thats fucking insane.

Nintendogs are laughing at you, fonix.

 

[aaaaa0]

NINE PERCENT?!?!?!

Is that of a PC processor, or of a 3-core, 3.2GHZ uber-processor? Thats 9 Gigaflops if 360 has a 100GFlop CPU. Thats fucking insane.

Nintendogs are laughing at you, fonix.

http://www.fonix.com/page.cfm?name=voiceingame

Fonix VoiceIn is our award-winning software solution for voice command and control in Xbox, PlayStation2, PC and Mac videogames. Fonix VoiceIn is the industry's most memory-efficient voice interface. Game developers worldwide can now build games that utilize a common API across Xbox, PlayStation2, PC and Mac platforms. Fonix VoiceIn is optimized for game development where memory and processing power are at a premium.

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Minimal Processor Requirements -- A typical VoiceIn implementation requires less than nine percent of the system's processing power. With developers adding more functions, improving graphics and audio, and providing gamers with more options, processing power is at a premium.

So they're talking about a PS2/xbox/PC/Mac CPU.

 

[MightyHedgehog]

about nine percent of processor bandwidth.

Just the bandwidth, according to that. Not 9% of the computational capability. Though, that seems high, but I don't really know anything about this crap.

 

[PizzaFarmer]

NINE PERCENT?!?!?!

Is that of a PC processor, or of a 3-core, 3.2GHZ uber-processor? Thats 9 Gigaflops if 360 has a 100GFlop CPU. Thats fucking insane.

Nintendogs are laughing at you, fonix.

Because all speech recognition libraries produce equal results?

 

[midnightguy]

when they say bandwidth of a CPU like that, they often mean actual processing power, not memory bandwidth.

 

[MightyHedgehog]

Really? OK. Like I've said before, I'm not a techie.

 

[TheDiave]

Color me unimpressed... Sega did that on the Dreamcast first; Sea-man 4 life! :lol

Kinda neat though, I guess... Though military games aren't my thing.

 

[raYne]

Screw voice controlled games, by the middle of next gen people will be too lazy to find their X360 controller to turn on/off the system. Voice activation is where it's at!

Xbox! Power On! *does Power Ranger poses*

 

[TheDiave]

Screw voice controlled games, by the middle of next gen people will be too lazy to find their X360 controller to turn on/off the system. Voice activation is where it's at!

Xbox! Power On! *does Power Ranger poses*

:lol