Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com Joystiq http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/http://www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com en-us Copyright 2013 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/<![CDATA[Bulletstorm to feature a mother-hugging profanity filter]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2010/12/23/bulletstorm-to-feature-a-mother-hugging-profanity-filter/http://www.joystiq.com/2010/12/23/bulletstorm-to-feature-a-mother-hugging-profanity-filter/http://www.joystiq.com/2010/12/23/bulletstorm-to-feature-a-mother-hugging-profanity-filter/#comments It's time once again to play Choose Your Own Analogy! Here's the situation: People Can Fly's Adrian Chmielarz recently addressed concerns about Bulletstorm's frequently obscene dialogue on Twitter, explaining that the game "features optional subtitles, and yes, you can tone the language down if you wish so." (In a followup tweet, Chmielarz suggested one might want to mute the voices and display the profanity in subtitles, say, if the kids could be listening from another room.)

Chmielarz clarified to Joystiq that the game will apparently feature options to tone down "both" the voice-overs and subtitles, though it's as yet unclear if that will entail replacement words or a simple censoring device. If the latter, here's where we play the analogy game: Based on the promotional material we've seen so far, we can't help but feel like playing through Bulletstorm with a dirty word filter on will result in more beeps than a ...
  • Car alarm factory
  • Old-timey Morse code station
  • Chiptunes concert
  • Los Angeles traffic jam
  • Beeper convention
  • Chiptunes concert held at a car alarm factory on the same block as the beeper convention

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Holy crap.
Nintendo, attempting to maintain their family-oriented image, has taken great caution to avoid standard voice chat in their online offerings...at least between people not firmly established as friends. Services such as Xbox Live might embrace the liberal cursing of prepubescent punks, but in a purely audio-based communciation system, it's almost impossible for a system to filter out profanity in real-time.

According to my mother's sister's friend's uncle an IGN Insider forum poster (who has some street cred, thanks to a previous accurate analysis of the internal Wiimote speaker) and a recent patent, Nintendo will be implementing a speech-to-text program to avoid such problems. In addition to standard word recognition, the program will also register the tone and volume of your voice to change the text into various sizes and colors. "STFU n00b" will be in red, presumably.

By converting audio data to simple text, the Wii will very easily be able to filter and/or change any words that are flagged in the system. Hopefully, the system will allow parents and users to modify the filters, and perhaps just give an optional regular voice-to-voice setting as well.

[via Joystiq]

JoystiqSpeech-to-whimsically-colored-text originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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