PS Vita to Have “Voice Recognition Gaming”

06/21/2011 Written by Sebastian Moss

If you weren’t happy with the fact that you could only use ten buttons, two analog sticks, two multitouch touch pads, two cameras and SixAxis support to control the PlayStation Vita, good news: the handheld may receive yet another control method – voice recognition.

Over on the new, and very stylish, PS Vita YouTube page (that has a free screensaver), Sony have let it slip that the ultra-powerful PSP successor will have “Voice Recognition Gaming,” so the microphone won’t just be used for Skype and multiplayer matches.

Voice recognition opens up a whole host of gameplay possibilities, as long as developers implement the support. With Microsoft’s Kinect starting to receive games that use voice control – such as Mass Effect 3 – it is possible that there could even be titles made for Kinect and Vita, despite the platforms initially seeming rather different. However, the one drawback is that the Vita is a portable device, and so you may end up being in a rather noisy and crowded place while you are prompted to shout out chat up lines to aliens in Mass Effect.

We’re excited to see more on the voice recognition support, and will certainly bring you more news on it as soon as it’s announced/accidentally let slip.

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7 Responses to “PS Vita to Have “Voice Recognition Gaming””

Kevin Chang says:
06/21/2011 at 12:08 AM
AH, you guys keep posting awesome articles. Mr. Moss I thank you for this. I have a feeling that Party Room chat (PSVita haing it now) will be announce soon on the PS3.
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- Sebastian Moss says:
  06/21/2011 at 12:22 AM
  Thanks I saw that roll with the voice recog and I wasnt paying attention and clicked out, before my brain realised – ended up rolling it 15 more times to get that pic, haha.
  Yeah, hopefully Party Chat will finally come, it would be a great addition.
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gtamaster503 says:
06/21/2011 at 1:07 AM
PSV, Kinect!
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goldencannon says:
06/21/2011 at 8:02 AM
Voice recognition on Vita would be nice addition. I’m sure it’ll get more people talking about it.
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themule says:
06/21/2011 at 9:44 AM
-VITA, PAUSE.
- VITA, DEPLOY LEGS
- VITA, KICK KINECT’S ASS.
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lemulot says:
06/21/2011 at 4:49 PM
Bullshit. Stop spreading around and stick to the base: a powerfull handled game console at a fair price. I’m enough of all these mimicks.
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kotakotakota says:
06/22/2011 at 2:32 AM
Do you mean speech recognition? The two are incredibly different…
Speech recognition – Recognizing WHAT is being said
Voice recognition – Recognizing WHO is speaking
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