Speech recognition coming to future Playstations?

Speech recognition may soon be the next big feature of future Sony's PlayStation consoles, based on a job opening posted on LinkedIn.

 

The opening called for a summer intern who can "help the team support its regular activities by doing engineering tasks that can be supervised/evaluated by another person on the team."

 

"This position will require some previous knowledge of speech recognition and signal processing with high motivation and ability to work independently for some periods of time. The required performed tasks include (but not limited to) speech noise reduction, speech detection, recognition, noisy rejection, and grammar processing under various environments," it said 

 

A list of job "duties" include:

 

*Robust speech feature extraction and signal processing for speech enhancement.

 

*Speech enhance and processing of noisy speech with human voice in the background.

 

*Engage some initial research off signal separation and neural network processing.

 

*Run evaluation and research on keyword spotting.

 

*Conduct some experiment on robust small vocabulary CSR with noisy speech

 

A separate report on The Next Web said that while Sony did not mention what platform or hardware the new employee will be working on, "the upcoming PlayStation 4 console is a pretty safe bet."

 

"When Sony unveiled the system in February, it gave players a pretty in-depth look at the new DualShock 4 controller, as well as a new lightbar that houses a double-camera PlayStation 4 Eye peripheral," it said. 

 

It added the posting for Sony Computer Entertainment America featured the PlayStation logo rather predominantly. It also noted Sony disclosed that the Eye comes with a “four channel microphone array,” which many viewers glossed over as a simple gameplay gimmick.

 

But with Microsoft’s push into voice-enabled commands with the Kinect peripheral for the Xbox 360, The Next Web said it is "not too difficult to imagine Sony developing a counterpoint for the upcoming PlayStation 4." – KDM, GMA News