Sony Wants to Improve Voice Recognition for Games and PS4

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For the moment voice recognition on PS4 is fairly limited on a system software level, and almost non existent in games, but Sony seems to be looking into changing that, as revealed by a career opportunity ad seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer.

SCEA’s Research and Development Organization is looking for a senior level engineer to support its PSVR SDK development for all PlayStation games for current and future platforms.

Principle Duties / Responsibilities
To provide the PSVR SDK support, coordination, and improvement for all games and to PS4 system for multi languages, particularly for Japanese. Including AEC support, VSH integration, and performance debugging for applications.

To help handle/compile standard web based grammar support for multi-languages for voice recognition grammar and dictionary.

To improve runtime voice recognition system level optimization (including CPU optimization) and sample voice applications for many languages, particularly for Japanese.

To help maintain the code level security checking to meet PS4 system software requirement.

To help implement, improve and handle CSR language modeling and automatic pronunciation generation for multiple languages.

To help improve voice recognition accuracy and out-of-vocabulary rejection rate for noisy speech, kid’s speech, and emotional speech with limited CPU and memory for multi languages.

To conduct variety of testing and developments of robust automatic speech recognition (ASR) technologies in various kinds of condition, include room and noises in Japan market.

To help testing and improvement of automatic multiple language grapheme-to-phoneme conversion.

It’ll be definitely interesting to see what will come out of this, and especially if Sony will extend its voice recognition feature more into the realm of games, instead of pretty much limiting it to navigating the system software.

Posted: Mar 23, 2015 11:38 am
Related Forum: PlayStation Forum

Source: http://www.dualshockers.com/2015/03/22/sony-wants-to-improve-voice-recognition-for-games-and-ps4-system-software/

Comments

NissanPosted: Wed. Mar 25, 2015

Don't really use voice recognition.

TimePosted: Tue. Mar 24, 2015

I rather they concentrate on other things, but i don't like using voice commands so it is a biased and selfish request.

PryzelPosted: Tue. Mar 24, 2015

Nice to see it being added, personally never use it on my Xbox but it can come in handy sometimes.

AimiPosted: Tue. Mar 24, 2015

Miss Things like this are pretty creepy if you ask me. Main reason I did not purchase a Kinect with my Xbox One.

I find it useful, but when I sleep I unplug it, and put a towel over it just in case.

LostPosted: Tue. Mar 24, 2015

I've never really been a fan of voice recognition. I feel like it's unnecessary and most of the time they lack features within.

MissPosted: Tue. Mar 24, 2015

Things like this are pretty creepy if you ask me. Main reason I did not purchase a Kinect with my Xbox One.

DankStorm-Posted: Tue. Mar 24, 2015

Monster-Munch It's pretty cool they want to do this but it's exactly what xbox has and it would be better if they though of something else and worked on that instead of copying xbox.

Lol, right? I don't really like PlayStation but I love Xbox

EnchantedWoodEPosted: Tue. Mar 24, 2015

Tet I love all these comments about Xbox doing it first, and xbox does it better.

You all do know that their just trying to make theirs better for the people who actually use it and don't have an Xbox right?

Preach it to the congregation honey!! XD

KatsumiChanPosted: Tue. Mar 24, 2015

I love all these comments about Xbox doing it first, and xbox does it better.

You all do know that their just trying to make theirs better for the people who actually use it and don't have an Xbox right?

AdamuPosted: Tue. Mar 24, 2015

It's pretty cool they want to do this but it's exactly what xbox has and it would be better if they though of something else and worked on that instead of copying xbox.

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