UbiBlog has word that the
promised
update is now live for
Star Trek: Bridge Crew that uses IBM's Watson
supercomputer to parse voice commands for AI crewmembers. Here's
a new trailer with a
leisurely approach to explaining this, and here's word:
Starting today,
Star Trek: Bridge Crew has interactive speech and cognitive capabilities
courtesy of IBM Watson. As Michael Ludden of IBM describes in the video below,
Watson’s speech-to-text service transcribes the voice command and then sends it
through Watson Conversation to parse the meaning of the text and deliver the
command.
In order to be heard by their AI crewmates, players need only press a button to
activate listening and then speak commands to the crew. This works whether you
are playing solo, or cooperatively with a mix of human and AI crewmates. Most
existing commands are voice-compatible (players must still select targets
manually), but there are a few extras the team put in to enhance the Trek
experience. “Make it so” will engage warp or impulse to the targeted
destination, “on screen” responds to a hail, “damage report” brings up the ship
status, and “red alert” causes all your human teammates to freak out (by
activating the red alert siren).
This Watson-fueled functionality is now live for all platforms and works in-game
on both the Aegis and the original Enterprise.