Videogames are becoming increasingly awesome, increasingly intuitive, increasingly appealing to a wide range of people. However, they still engender a disembodied feeling of unreality when we play them. Adding speech to games could change that feeling.

1. Making Games Human: Adding Voice to Videogames Matthew Bellows

2. Prologue: What the past is

9. Chapter One: Evolution

12. 8 bit audio

13. THX audio

21. Chapter Two: Speech Makes us Human

28. If not for Talkies… Radio would be Hollywood

29. Chapter Three: Voice in the Game, the Metagame and the There and Now

30. The There and Now

31. The Core Uses Voice n=399 Source: MMO Player Survey

32. but it’s still a social medium n=379 Source: MMO Player Survey

33. Speech in the Social There

34. Speech in the Metagame

36. SingStar et al

40. Chapter Four: The Power of Speech

42. Social Networks with Voice

45. Chapter Five: Not for Everybody

47. Disney’s Toontown

49. Chapter Six: Designing for Speech

51. Player Reaction Amazing jobs, folks, and so seamless too. I especially like that … it is now INGAME voice as opposed to the old ' add-on... Hugs all around for giving us yet one more reason to keep our EQ2 addiction alive and strong. Oh! and the extra bonus… NO LAAAAAGGGGG Woooo Hoooo Thank you!!! You have all completely outdone yourselves .. this is soooo smooooth, sooooo seamless and no lag whatsoever. Beats out ALL the other voice chat options we struggled through in the past. Wow~ I didn't expect it to work this good. Its a lot easier to "set up" (actually it was already perfect first time logging in)...

53. #3: Make it Optional

54. Conclusion

56. Discussion http://gamesandvoice.wordpress.com/