Good news for both speech recognition and virtual gun enthusiasts: “Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2″ will be released this week. The game, according to a Gamepro.com review, casts players as a “highly trained anti-terrorist specialist who roams around with his squadmates, picking off evildoers with an impressive array of firepower.” Sounds like a typical day at the Speech Tech offices. Fonix provides the speech technology that fuels the game’s voice command system — one of a handful of companies involved in the gaming vertical market. And, according to the same review, the game is supposed to be quite excellent — it has garnered a bunch of praise within the gaming world. Go Fonix!

For more on the speech technology & gaming marketplace, check out Ryan’s Market Spotlight article on the gaming industry from our March 2008 issue.