Wii Rumour: Headsets. Voice Recognition

According to a strengthening rumour gaining momentum right now, the Nintendo Wii will feature wireless headsets for communication as standard across all online play, with a voice-to-text conversion enabling users to censor the content to which they are subjected to by other users.

Stemming from a well-established board in the more right-wing areas of the online gaming world, a user who nailed the Wii-Mote speaker news months before the E3 announcement claims Nintendo will make the voice-to-text technology an absolute standard in all elements of Wii online, reflective of it's security-conscious stance towards gaming and communication over the Internet.

"When a user speaks the sound is converted into on screen text and sent to the other players," claims the purported mole. "However, rather than just plain text being sent the system also picks up the tone, pitch and volume of the voice and translates that into colour, font size and character set. For example, if a player shouts ‘I win’ loudly into the microphone the on screen text may be all capitalized, and in a large red font; conversely if a player speaks quietly the font may be a pastel shade and smaller. This system also allows online voice communication to be easily censored by the user."

Of course, this rumour has been aired in the past, simply with a lot less detail. It would also be fair to say that one could write as book on the speculation that has engulfed the Nintendo machine since it was first announced, an environment entirely of the company's own making.

Stay tuned for the next official Wi information, likely to come from Leipzig towards the end of August. Yes, next week! SPOnG will be there to bring you all the news from the horse's mouth as it breaks.