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Brianna · May 16, 2008, 10:46 PM // 22:46

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Originally Posted by zamial

Brianna my responses.

*First and Foremost: At work. Imagine everyone in the office talking to their computer, yeah, do I need to say more? Nope, self explanatory how that will work out.
This will be done with a office/ better sound proof cubiles, also adjusting the microphone sensitivity.

*Secondly: The voice recognition we have now sucks, you can do anything more accurately and faster with a mouse and keyboard, not to mention in most of my instances (With different microphones) I had to yell to get it to work, not cool.

Once again it has to do with microphone sensitivity,training the voice recognition, regional dialect/accents. I have typed, as well as my GF, a 5 page term paper in 15 min. with minimal editing, also done with the voice recognition. I guarantee I can talk faster than any human can type. I can also browse the web, open/close programs with less effort than leaning into a keyboard and holding a mouse.

*Thirdly, imagine gaming with voice recognition: "Turn left, turn right, shoot! SHOOT!'' I mean.. seriously, no thanks. Imagine being at home with a family member doing that, I would hit them with a brick, and probably to anyone else I heard doing that, It's just not going to work.

The whole voice recognition thing itself is cool, but in my eyes - it has absolutely no means for practical use for your every day person, maybe in a few instances with some people (Disabled people), or to say ''Hey I can control my computer with my voice, come look'' but other than that, no real practical uses.

Well, I hope you don't hit family members, but it is no different than being on the phone. Now imagine w/ me a star trek game that you can talk to your ship and it talks back, Even better as a mmo,where you "communicate" with not only your ship but your crew as well. yes you prob will still need a game pad or a number pad for movement or specific functions but mostly talking to the game. That would be awesome. That is just an example. Yes keyboards will probably NEVER die, take for example programmers, But carpal tunnel sux bad.

The main problem w/ voice recognition is accents and regional dialects, if you tell your computer, " sshheeet daawg open my fyrefox afore i shhanks ya" or "weell ggoollly tuurn tha voluuume doown" you can not really expect it to have a clue what you just said, but it should, with the correct regional accent pack. Playing a great game on a massive monitor with a blue tooth mic/ear peice and a wireless numpad from my lazyboy, priceless. yes this is moving into the future.

But to respond again to the OP I still say a good gaming mouse, I love extra buttons.

I don't hit my family members, no lol. It was just an expression.

And well, I am glad about you and your GF's success, I wasn't as fortunate.

I still see mouses and keyboards as the way people will play games, but I must admit that being able to control some elements that you can interact with, with voice, would be very cool. It's just not possible to play the whole game with only your voice, that is what I was getting at there.

I still think it would be a little more practical for the other things though, and especially for disabled people, voice recognition would be more than awesome for them. I just don't want to hear angry gamers screaming to control their games.

But don't they anyways!?

zamial · May 17, 2008, 05:27 PM // 17:27

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Originally Posted by Brianna

I still see mouses and keyboards as the way people will play games, but I must admit that being able to control some elements that you can interact with, with voice, would be very cool. It's just not possible to play the whole game with only your voice, that is what I was getting at there.

As far as midevil mmo's go. Like using a shout, casting a spell w/ verbal components or bringing up menus, absolutely, but I do not see moving or shooting as viable. lol. Nor would I want to talk an enemy to death lol.

Anyways until it is viable to control aspects via voice we are stuck with the keyboard and mouse/tracball option or a game pad. Out of the 2, I choose mouse. for this reason: I would rather put wear and tear on my wrists and elbows instead of my thumbs, it is the thumbs that separate us from the cats and keep us at the top of the food chain.

Brianna · May 17, 2008, 06:38 PM // 18:38

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Originally Posted by zamial

As far as midevil mmo's go. Like using a shout, casting a spell w/ verbal components or bringing up menus, absolutely, but I do not see moving or shooting as viable. lol. Nor would I want to talk an enemy to death lol.

Anyways until it is viable to control aspects via voice we are stuck with the keyboard and mouse/tracball option or a game pad. Out of the 2, I choose mouse. for this reason: I would rather put wear and tear on my wrists and elbows instead of my thumbs, it is the thumbs that separate us from the cats and keep us at the top of the food chain.

Yeah, or in an FPS game you can command your team to points, I can't think of any games where you have a squad to command, but I know there are some, that would be neat.

I prefer my mouse's quality over my keyboard's, because for 20$ I can get a nice keyboard that is ''Ergo'' and is comfortable, but a 10$ mouse can't match the quality of a higher end one that costs more, no doubt.