Fonix joins Nintendo to provide titles with voice recognition

Fonix Speech Inc. announced the other day that it just joined Nintendo’s Third Party Tools Program so that Wii developers can now integrate embedded speech interfaces and voice recognition technologies Fonix VoiceIn Game Edition and Fonix VoiceIn Karaoke Edition in to their titles.

In a nutshell, this affects your gaming experience in such a way that the said technologies will allow you to implement voice commands into gameplay. The Game Edition of VoiceIn is for your usual in-game commands mostly useful in tactical-based titles while the Karaoke one recognizes the timing, pitch, and accuracy of the player’s voice.

Quite interestingly, we learned at the beginning of this month that the motion-sensitive Wiimote has an additional feature that is still not being tapped by Nintendo or any other developers for that matter. That feature is actually an audio translator chip that is able to convert analog data such as human speech into a digital data stream.

This announcement is clearly related to that and it would be good to see what kind of video games will translate from the said development. Fonix Speech has also made its technologies available for developers on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

Fonix Speech Inc. announced the other day that it just joined Nintendo’s Third Party Tools Program so that Wii developers can now integrate embedded speech interfaces and voice recognition technologies Fonix VoiceIn Game Edition and Fonix VoiceIn Karaoke Edition in to their titles.

In a nutshell, this affects your gaming experience in such a way that the said technologies will allow you to implement voice commands into gameplay. The Game Edition of VoiceIn is for your usual in-game commands mostly useful in tactical-based titles while the Karaoke one recognizes the timing, pitch, and accuracy of the player’s voice.

Quite interestingly, we learned at the beginning of this month that the motion-sensitive Wiimote has an additional feature that is still not being tapped by Nintendo or any other developers for that matter. That feature is actually an audio translator chip that is able to convert analog data such as human speech into a digital data stream.

This announcement is clearly related to that and it would be good to see what kind of video games will translate from the said development. Fonix Speech has also made its technologies available for developers on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.