Voice games – An overview of an up-and-coming category
summary
Claims voice will replace typing within 5–10 years and points to platform growth — Google Actions hitting 1 billion+ enabled devices and smart speakers reaching ~40% US households (UK ~1 in 10) — as evidence. Demonstrates working genres: Jeopardy-style trivia and song quiz multiplayer on Alexa/Google, and an interactive party-RPG built with text‑to‑speech and actor audio where you talk to characters; hardware advances (multi‑mic devices) make voice capture reliable and these prototypes are playable.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction to voice games
- 1:05Voice as the next interaction frontier
- 2:49Defining voice-controlled games
- 6:00Popular voice game genres today
- 9:19Interactive story and RPG voice games
- 11:06Party and narrative-driven voice games
- 13:14Voice in companion and augmented games
- 15:30Kids and family voice game examples
- 18:29Future of voice games and opportunities
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