Computer and Video Game Publisher Ubisoft has released Tom Clancy’s End War, which is controlled by Speech Recognition Technology.

Well, sort of.

From a review on bit-tech.net:

“The developer, Ubisoft Shanghai, has cheated a little though.  Rather than use the software to recognise actual words, it is used to recognise the sounds that make up those words – the system used looks out for particular sounds that go to make up a word. This cunningly gets around the need for a large amount of training generally required with standard speech recognition software, and also gets around the problem of accents: the main sounds of a word are essentially the same, regardless of your accent. The problem has been simplified even further by only recognising a handful of words – about eighty or ninety, according to Ubisoft.”

Below, check out a couple of stories about Tom Clancy’s End War:

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I used to spend half a day futzing around Apple’s movie trailer site. I’d spend the other half at Gametrailers.com, because I really can’t consider myself a productive individual unless I’m watching video game trailers until the cock’s crow.

Tom Clancy’s EndWar looks pretty cool, and is of particular relevance if you’re interested in speech recognition.

That’s because this real time strategy game (in which you mobilize entire armies) is controlled almost entirely by voice.

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