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Why not speech -> text function for console mmorpg's?

FinvegaFinvega Member RarePosts: 260
in The Pub at MMORPG.COM

One of the big knocks on console play (from a pc gamer perspective), is the lack of a handy keyboard to "chat". How about a game feature that acts like a simpler Dragon Speech. I talk on my console microphone, but you see it as chat in your chat window.

I am thinking this for games like the ESO-console version. Lol, the goofy translations at times would be epic, but still useful ????

 

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  • tawesstawess Member EpicPosts: 4,227

    biggest problem is that most of them are just bad. Sure it would work for single word commands and short bits. But anything longer and errors begin to creep in. 

     

    Also... most do not do accents very well. 

     

    But i agree it would be a very good compliment to consoles if it was made right. 

    This have been a good conversation

  • SpottyGekkoSpottyGekko Member EpicPosts: 6,916
    Originally posted by tawess

    biggest problem is that most of them are just bad. Sure it would work for single word commands and short bits. But anything longer and errors begin to creep in. 

     

    Also... most do not do accents very well. 

     

    But i agree it would be a very good compliment to consoles if it was made right. 

    However, it would add licensing fees to the game's production cost, because the text-to-speech products are specialist pieces of software. You don't just "write your own" speech converter on a whim, lol

     

    There are many open-source speech converters that do a good job of converting single words or very short (pre-programmed) phrases, but that's a very far cry from handling normal spoken language.

  • jdnewelljdnewell Member UncommonPosts: 2,237

    Accents are a problem.

    I am from the southern US and while my accent isnt bad even the XB1 has trouble with simple commands due to the accent.

    And the consoles have the ability to connect a KB. Why not just add that functionality to a game?

  • BadSpockBadSpock Member UncommonPosts: 7,979
    I could see MS doing it on XB1 with Windows 10 and Cortana, which does pretty good speech to text on my phone.
  • IselinIselin Member LegendaryPosts: 18,719
    I won't be happy until I can control games with just my mind :)
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  • nariusseldonnariusseldon Member EpicPosts: 27,775
    Why bother reading small text on the tv when you can just use voice?
  • SilacoidSilacoid Member UncommonPosts: 237
    There is one big reason this doesn't exist, it would be very expensive to develop or license.  It would also impact game performance negatively which is a secondary reason.  The availability of headsets makes it so they would never spend this type of money to have this feature in a game.
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