This may be a total "derp" moment, but I thought the voice recognition stuff only worked when you used the Playstation Camera. I was testing USB headsets that I owned so I plugged in my Logitech headset (wired version of G930) and it

1. Asked me who was using the headset

2. Immediately started taking voice commands

The ability went away when I went into a party and was using the headset for voice chat but when I went back out of the party it started working again. I was pretty impressed as it picked up what, limited, functionality it had rather well with no frustration. If they can get bluetooth headsets to work with this I think this will be a better way to do voice recognition than the camera.

I agree. That's really cool. A headset or microphone attached to your face or controller would be a much better option than one that is most likely mere inches away from your television.

That's super cool

Man, if I could use my G930s with my PS4, that'd be pretty awesome. Now you make me want to go fiddle around with it tonight.

Weird...

So..

The other day I had a headset plugged in (it doesn't have a mic though) and I gave a voice command, and it worked.

HOW COULD IT HAVE WORKED? Is there a mic inside the controller? Is there a hidden mic inside my headset??

@geraltitude: The defining attribute of this generation: magic.

@geraltitude: The controller is probably converting the speaker into a microphone. This isn't really difficult to do, speakers and microphones are essentially the same thing but physical design usually makes the input from a speaker or the output from a microphone pretty terrible. Assuming they designed the controller's speaker to be a passable mic, it demonstrates a remarkable attention to detail.

What?? You would think that if the controller could accept voice commands Sony would have advertised it to compete with the xbone

@sammo21: I edited your topic title...try not to bury the lead and force people to click on the thread to even find out what it's about. Thanks.

Okay, that's weird. I posted a blank somehow.

Sony has been going the opposite way of MS and not advertising anything that isn't core gaming. No Kinect-style features, no voice recognition, no face login.

Maybe they'll change up once they satiate the "hardcore gamer" customer base. We'll see.

This is the weirdest part about Kinect. Microsoft has been talking up voice commands as a Kinect feature, and for some reason nobody has bothered to mention the fact that voice recognition has nothing to do with Kinect outside of its inclusion of a microphone. Anything with a decent microphone could be used for spoken commands, but it's like people have forgotten about that.

@sammo21: It didn't ask who your father is nor his occupation?

I discovered this accidentally when I plugged in my mic before sending out a chat invite to my cousin. It seems like a pretty cool feature.

So for anyone who toyed with the voice stuff, how intricate does it get? I thought I heard that you can't do netflix support or anything with it. Just curious.

It's quite limited. You can launch games and a few other things. No, it doesn't work in Netflix or anything other than the XMB dashboard as far as I can tell.