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ej76623
06-01-2007, 01:39 AM
wario needed this feature

http://technabob.com/blog/2007/05/31/the-wii-controller-has-a-little-secret/

or... that nintendo is listening to players playing the wii.... :p
downlowfunk
06-01-2007, 03:50 PM
I was wondering if WiiMote would have this before I heard about the translator. The pokemon attachment on a previous nintendo did something like that. After answering the phone on Wario Ware I thought that would be cool to have a wario game where they make you repeat a line of gibberish, or something like that.

PEACE I love the Wii!!!
duros
06-04-2007, 08:23 PM
Thats some cool ****...

I can just imagine chatting through the wiimote in the future with people from Japan. WiiChat or WorldWideWii
ciper
06-05-2007, 01:23 AM
I registered just so I could say that the story is completely backwards (wrong). The audio chip is to convert data sent over bluetooth TO audio. It is connected to the speaker. This is how the Wiimote is able to make sounds during certain games.

edit: A better breakdown of the WiiMote can be found here
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/present.php?p=Wii-Internals
duros
06-05-2007, 01:21 PM
I registered just so I could say that the story is completely backwards (wrong). The audio chip is to convert data sent over bluetooth TO audio. It is connected to the speaker. This is how the Wiimote is able to make sounds during certain games.

edit: A better breakdown of the WiiMote can be found here
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/present.php?p=Wii-Internals
That makes more sense but i'm sure the chip could be used for more than one purpose.
Narcotic
06-06-2007, 04:15 AM
yeah but if that chip is used to convert bluetooth data to audio, there is no reason at all to assume that it is also used for voice recognition.
Teitoku
06-06-2007, 04:20 PM
You mean, other than the fact that it isn't that sort of device? It just converts data to audio, and possibly audio to data. It doesn't do any voice recognition; that's something the console itself would manage.
numms
06-06-2007, 04:53 PM
You mean, other than the fact that it isn't that sort of device? It just converts data to audio, and possibly audio to data. It doesn't do any voice recognition; that's something the console itself would manage.
If it does audio to data, then all that the system would require to do voice recognition would be a system update.
ciper
06-06-2007, 09:49 PM
Guys, help to stop the rumor here. Its a decoder, nothing more.