GLaDOS Is In Del Toro’s New Film, Pacific Rim [Video]
Thursday, 13th December 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: ai, Charlie Hunnam, del Toro, film, glados, Idris Elba, mechs, Pacific Rim, portal, voice
Written by: Craig Hunter
Director Guillermo del Toro, who is previously responsible for films like Hellboy and Pan’s Labyrinth, revealed the trailer to his newest project last night.
The film is called Pacific Rim and it will feature voice actor Ellen McLain as a robot AI. McLain did the voice work for Portal’s antagonist GLaDOS (via Polygon).
As you can see in the trailer below (0:47 sec), the AI in the film has the same audio processing on it as GLaDOS does in Portal.
Continue reading “GLaDOS Is In Del Toro’s New Film, Pacific Rim [Video]” »
Last Night and Today in 1337LoungeLive – Video Game Voice Director Taliesin Jaffe and Voice Actors from Super Street Fighter IV and Street Fighter X Tekken
Thursday, 29th November 2012Posted in 1337 Lounge Live
Tags: 1337loungelive, actors, fighter, game, street, Street Fighter, video, voice, voice actors
Written by: Paul Nyhart
If you didn’t join us for last night’s event in 1337LoungeLive, you missed a visit by James Stevenson from Insomniac Games, who presented the new Ratchet & Clank game, and the lovely Brittani Johnson, actress for the Angel in Borderlands 2. Here’s a video recap of the highlights and yes, the incredible giveaways.
A very special gathering of massive talent today in 1337LoungeLive at 7:00 PM PST, as we welcome prolific video game voice director Taliesin Jaffe, who will be bringing a group of voice actors he’s directed from Super Street Fighter IV and Street Fighter X Tekken. He’s rounded up Matthew Mercer (Fei Long), Jason Charles Miller (Guy), Gina Grad (Rose) and Jordan Albert (Kazuya).
In addition to being the voice of a couple Street Fighter characters himself (Blanka and Adon), Taliesin Jaffe is an ADR director and writer for over 20 anime roles, notably R.O.D the TV and Hellsing. If you’ve got questions about voice acting for video games and cartoons, he’s got answers.
Join us in 1337LoungeLive for what promises to be a highly entertaining night with voice actors taking up the controls for two of the most celebrated titles in fighting game history, and battling each other using the characters they voiced. Shenanigans shall ensure.
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Mercedes Launches New Car — With Help from Legendary Anime Creators
Tuesday, 20th November 2012Posted in Anime News
Tags: A-class, Anime, car, mercedes, Production IG, Toyota, voice
Written by: Jeff Nau
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Following in the footsteps of Toyota’s latest line Priuses, Mercedes is utilizing some of the anime industry’s best and brightest to launch and market their latest series of A-Class cars.
The big guns this time around include Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, perhaps best known for his work on Neon Genesis Evangelion, is behind the character design — Continue reading “Mercedes Launches New Car — With Help from Legendary Anime Creators” »
Daily Viral Video: Lindsey Stirling and Peter Hollins Pwn ‘Game of Thrones’ Theme
Thursday, 6th September 2012Posted in Blog Archive, NERDCORE
Tags: Daenerys, Game of Thrones, Lindsey Stirling, Peter Hollins, Ramin Djawadi, theme, violin, vocals, voice
Written by: Jeff Nau
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The Internet’s favorite cute geek violinist Lindsey Stirling is back, a mere couple of months following her outstanding tributes to Zelda and Skyrim – the latter of which boasted the vocal talents of Peter Hollins, who possesses an uncanny ability to sing entire orchestral sections using a meticulously-produced layering of vocal tracks.
Their most recent music video take on Ramin Djawadi’s beloved Celtic-flavored score for Game of Thrones proves they may have trumped all their previous covers. Continue reading “Daily Viral Video: Lindsey Stirling and Peter Hollins Pwn ‘Game of Thrones’ Theme” »
Skyrim Kinect Voice Support Comes “The Week of April 23″
Friday, 13th April 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: April 23, bethesda, cnn, commands, elder scrolls, kinect, Pete Hines, Project Adam, skyrim, voice
Written by: Craig Hunter
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim will be seeing its Kinect functionality coming up later this month during “the week of April 23.” Skyrim will add over 200 voice commands to the mix including dragon shouts and ally instructions.
“…your entire repertoire of shouts is available without opening a menu..”
In an exclusive interview with CNN (via GT), Bethesda revealed the launch date as well as confirming the Kinect update will be available in 5 different languages: English, French, Spanish, German, and Italian. Continue reading “Skyrim Kinect Voice Support Comes “The Week of April 23″” »
iPad Gives Disabled Comedian A Voice For First Stand-Up Gig
Friday, 17th February 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: comedian, ipad, text-to-speech, video, voice
Written by: Craig Hunter
It’s no secret that Apple leads the mobile industry in providing accessibility features to people with disabilities. Apple even published a “Commitment to Accessibility” on its website and has been awarded with several honors related to accessibility features like VoiceOver and support for braille displays in iOS 5. With Siri, Apple has an even greater opportunity to revolutionize the way disabled people interact with their devices.
One heartwarming example of this comes from a man who lost his voice as a child but recently took the stage for his very first stand-up comedy gig with the help of a text-to-voice app and an iPad.
ElectricPig pointed us to the video of Lee Ridley, aka ‘Lost Voice Guy’, who took the stage using the ‘Speak It!’ iPad app to covert text into the voice you hear in the video (below). Ridley has Continue reading “iPad Gives Disabled Comedian A Voice For First Stand-Up Gig” »
Control Windows Media Center With Kinect Voice And Gesture Control for $7
Wednesday, 15th February 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Technology
Tags: app, kinect, Kinect for Media Center, voice, windows
Written by: Craig Hunter
If you can get around the cost of Kinect for Windows, $250, you’re going to begin seeing more great apps being released that add voice and gesture control support to your favorite Windows apps (not just games).
Thanks to a new app from from third party developer Brad Mauk, you can now control the Windows 7 Media Center app completely with voice commands, pinches and waves of your hands. Continue reading “Control Windows Media Center With Kinect Voice And Gesture Control for $7” »
Gameloft Rolling Out In-Game Voice Chat To Android Devices Later This Year
Monday, 23rd January 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gadgets, Gaming
Tags: 4g, Adrenaline, android, Ashphalt 6, CES 2012, chat, Gameloft, in-game, Qualcomm, Verizon, voice
Written by: Craig Hunter
One of the biggest mobile game publishers on the market, Gameloft, is getting set to introduce a new gaming feature on smartphones that was previously unavailable — in-game voice chat over 4G on Android devices.
Gameloft made things official at the Qualcomm booth during CES 2012 this month by announcing that they would initially be partnering with Verizon to roll the service out across devices on its 4G LTE network.
We now know the first game to get in-game chat will be Ashphalt 6: Adrenaline and the feature will be rolling out to users across various Gameloft titles later this year. Continue reading “Gameloft Rolling Out In-Game Voice Chat To Android Devices Later This Year” »
Mass Effect 3 for Xbox 360 Gets Kinect Voice Commands, Demo Lands Feb. 14
Thursday, 19th January 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming, Technology
Tags: Aaryn Flynn, bioware, commands, demo, Feb 14, kinect, Mass Effect 3, motion, recognition, voice, XBOx 360
Written by: Craig Hunter
If you’re anticipating Mass Effect 3 like just about everybody else, you may or may not be excited to learn the latest trailer focuses mainly on the RPG’s Kinect integration.
Normally when we think of the Kinect’s motion gestures in any genre of hardcore shooter the vision of PlayStation’s Kevin Butler using his hand as a gun is the first thing that comes to mind.
Fortunately, the Kinect-enabled Mass Effect 3 Continue reading “Mass Effect 3 for Xbox 360 Gets Kinect Voice Commands, Demo Lands Feb. 14” »
Christopher Nolan: Can’t Hear Bane? Get a F*cking Hearing Aid!
Tuesday, 20th December 2011Posted in Blog Archive, Pop Culture
Tags: Bane, Christopher Nolan, dark knight, dark knight rises, hear, James Cameron, mask, muffled, prologue, Tom Hardy, trailer, understand, voice
Written by: Jeff Nau
Okay, that’s an exaggeration. Nolan is too much of a gentlemanly, tea-taking Brit to utter such expletives to loyal fans (we hope).
BUT after the online debut of pirated/studio-endorsed Dark Knight Rises trailers, general response has been pretty f*cking ecstatic, except for the fact that no one can understand what the f*ck that creepy looking masked guy in the prologue/trailer is saying.
That would be Tom Hardy playing Bane, and he kinda sounds like Dudley Moore if he were breathing through a resuscitator. But I understood Moore and I can for the most part understand Bane. About half of it. Sort of. The general consensus seems to be that surely Nolan will fix it with ADR or special post production vocal re-recording… Continue reading “Christopher Nolan: Can’t Hear Bane? Get a F*cking Hearing Aid!” »
Kinect Mod Adds Voice and Motion Control to Skyrim
Tuesday, 6th December 2011Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming, Technology
Tags: FusRoDah, hack, kinect, mod, motion, PC, Skryrim, voice
Written by: Craig Hunter
Despite being the fastest selling device (until the iPhone 4S), and an increasing amount of support from developers, it’s up to the modding community to figure out a way to integrate Kinect’s voice and motion controls into games that don’t officially support it.
Some aren’t waiting for Microsoft to hand out their $20,000 grant for Kinect hacks, with a ton of mods popping up in the last few months. Perhaps the most intriguing yet, YouTuber KinectFAAST has posted (via Destructoid) the video below showing what appears to be Kinect support for the PC version of Skryrim… Continue reading “Kinect Mod Adds Voice and Motion Control to Skyrim” »
Apple’s Siri Assistant Gets Re-imagined with a Dose of Reality
Wednesday, 16th November 2011Posted in Apple, Blog Archive, Technology
Tags: ai, apple, comedy, concepts, joke, reality, shitsirisays, siri, skit, video, voice
Written by: Craig Hunter
Written By Jordan Kahn
We’ve already seen a few re-imaginings of Apple’s voice-controlled Siri feature in the new iPhone 4S. First we had a voice over courtesy of Portal’s GLaDOS, then the promise of a HAL 9000 inspired-dock, and lastly a possible mind-control hack that some are calling out as fake.
Perhaps the only thing missing from these concepts is a little dose of reality. Much like Apple’s own ads for Siri, most of these concepts and products don’t depict the voice-controlled feature in the real world as we know it, but rather Apple’s fantasy world where everything is supposed to “just work”.
But today we bring you a reimagining of Siri in the real world courtesy of the guys over at CollegeHumor.
While the skit is clearly for comedy only, and not trying to point out any flaw in Siri, the voice-controlled AI does have a tendency of saying some pretty strange Continue reading “Apple’s Siri Assistant Gets Re-imagined with a Dose of Reality” »
Do Video Games REALLY Need Leading Men?
Tuesday, 8th November 2011Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: actor, actors, experience, game, games, Guild, interview, leading, MarkHamill, NolanNorth, salaries, uncharted, voice, voiceovers
Written by: Craig Hunter
With games on current generation consoles blurring the lines between Hollywood-style epic narratives and conventional gameplay, the voice actors behind the lead characters in our favorite games can be crucial to the overall experience.
Even with the video game industry enjoying consistent growth while the movie industries try to re-invent themselves, the actors so crucial to the success of these games Continue reading “Do Video Games REALLY Need Leading Men?” »
$19 unlimited voice, SMS, and data anyone? Republic Wireless has you covered
Thursday, 3rd November 2011Posted in Blog Archive, Technology
Tags: android, bandwidth, data, plan, Republic, unlimited, voice, voip, wifi, wireless
Written by: Craig Hunter
Written By Jordan Kahn
As long as you’re willing to grab one of their special Android handsets capable of accessing the service, Republic Wireless is gearing up to launch a pretty enticing data package starting November 8th. For $19 a month, the company is offering truly unlimited voice, data, and SMS without bandwidth caps of any kind.
The service works by allowing you to place both VoIP calls over Wi-Fi, and normal calls over a conventional cellular connection. The idea here is that you’re only ever using a traditional cell connection when Wi-Fi is unavailable. SMS gets the same treatment and data will come way of 3G. The supported devices will of course also have full Wi-Fi capabilities as well. The actual switching from VoIP calls to traditional cellular network calls will happen Continue reading “$19 unlimited voice, SMS, and data anyone? Republic Wireless has you covered” »
Kinect-powered GLaDOS Personal Assistant Does Siri-like Voice-Control on a PC
Wednesday, 2nd November 2011Posted in Blog Archive, Technology
Tags: ai, apple, artificial, commands, control, glados, intelligence, kinect, microsoft, project, SDK, siri, video, voice
Written by: Craig Hunter
With the recent launch of Apple’s iPhone 4S, the artificially intelligent personal assistant Siri has been getting all the love from those who think voice-control is the way the future for navigation.
Not so fast says Corey Thomas, who just posted the video below to Vimeo showing his latest voice-control project using Kinect…and a little help from Portal’s GLaDOS.
Siri already got a GLaDOS concept video, but this thing is the real deal. In the video we see Corey controlling his PC with his voice Continue reading “Kinect-powered GLaDOS Personal Assistant Does Siri-like Voice-Control on a PC” »
HAL 9000 iPhone 4S dock lets you control Siri from 50 feet away
Tuesday, 25th October 2011Posted in Apple, Blog Archive, Gadgets, Technology
Tags: 4S, 9000, apple, dock, HAL, iPhone, iris, pre-order, siri, speakerphone, ThinkGeek, voice
Written by: Craig Hunter
Written By Jordan Kahn
When Apple introduced the voice-controlled, AI personal assistant known as Siri on the new iPhone 4S, many speculated that like voice-control features in the past, it probably wouldn’t be ready for everyday use and would prove too frustrating to use.
However, it wasn’t long before people started to realize just how advanced the DARPA-developed tech is and how incredibly precise and useful Siri can truly be. That isn’t to say there aren’t bugs, and it’s certainly not perfect, but it can definitely open our eyes to a future that isn’t too far off from the voice-controlled computer systems Continue reading “HAL 9000 iPhone 4S dock lets you control Siri from 50 feet away” »
Apple’s new Siri personal assistant for iPhone 4S explained
Wednesday, 5th October 2011Posted in Blog Archive, Technology
Tags: apple's, ask, control, controlled, feature, iPhone, siri, voice
Written by: Craig Hunter
Just in case you are wondering how Siri integration will work on the new iPhone 4S, below we’ll walk you through what you can expect from Apple’s new voice-controlled personal assistant. As you can see from the video below, the feature allows you to control tasks on your phone such as scheduling calendar items, reading and sending emails, sending texts, searching the web, and presumably anything that could be controlled using a voice command.
You can activate the feature by simply holding the home button briefly, much the same as the iPhone 4′s current Voice Control feature Continue reading “Apple’s new Siri personal assistant for iPhone 4S explained” »
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