Hi. I totally agree about the Tts business. Another good example is the audio menue system I've recently seen on the Dr. who series 2 dvd's, which can be toggled.
My only slight worry with this sort of thing in console games though, is techniclly how possible it would be and how cost effective. In a recent discussion with a friend of mine who's doing an Msc in computing, he happened to mentioned that the reason speech ssynthes and tts is so possible with windows is to do with how the text is written to the graphics driver, ----- this was in the context of a discussion about audio menues for Wii games. apparently, there are certain properties of the windows asqi text that can be exploited rather nicely in creating speech synths, which probably wouldn't happen with other operating systems, ----- not without some major investment in ocr technology anyway. As Bryan said, we are not a particularly large demographic, and I'm not quite as convinced about whether a company would see that type of technology as cost effective. Personally, I think it's far more likely that, at best, a company producing games like shen Mu, which already have large amounts of pre-recorded speech, will stick in a few recorded menue options, and maybe some audio movement and proximity indicaters. this would of course be a good thing, sinse it would expand the amount of games we have to play, but I doubt very much if it will be for more than one or two titles at first, ----- or indeed, in general. I think it'll be at least 10 or 15 years before Tts and audio navigation options become as useable in games or dvd's as they are at the moment for windows, ---- that's of course assuming that this rather worrying trend towards fully 3D movement based interfaces like the windows arrow doesn't raise too many barriers. then again though, as I've argued to several english libraries in the context of producing Sf or Fantasy books, sinse the majority of vi people are in their 60's, as time progresses, and successive generations lose their vision, things are going to have to change in terms of accessibility to accommodate them, ----- what happens when people who are now in their 40's and 50's, using computers (like a lot of my lecturers), start losing their site? Appologies for the wrant, I'm having a very productive morning Phd wise, and writing about freedome of choice, disability and desire gave me a knew perspective. Beware the Grue! (even worse than the philosopher), Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
