Vinny Bought Bot Colony. Now What?

SO THIS WAS PRETTY MUCH THE BEST THING EVER

I love it when Philips talks to the NPCs like he knows them! Vinny is the man!!! Cant wait to intern at VinCo one of these days

"HAVE SEX"

I second that notion!

@mrsmiley said:

I think the point is that Vinny accidentally didn't save ANY of his training. Also they're not using their own speech recognition technology, they're using Microsoft's (or Dragon, if you have that installed).

Interesting.

All right Vinny. Back in your chair. We're doing this again.

I think that's fair, although it seemed odd that even single words, pronounced as clearly as possible, weren't recognized. It's not like there was background noise getting in the way of using the boom. Out of curiosity, how much training is needed to have the experience in the video you linked? I mean, Vinny went through a good 15-20 minutes of it. Do you have to repeat the training 2-3 times for it to work properly? Also, even if the voice recognition is perfect, the lack of contextual awareness is something I hope you guys are working to fix (like when Vinny said "walk forward" twice, then said "more" and it wasn't recognized).

I respect what you guys are doing, but when there is voice recognition software out there (Siri, Google Voice, etc) that accurately recognizes voice and context with zero training, I can completely see why someone would become frustrated with this game, as they would expect the voice recognition to be as a good as tech that has been existing for years. Anyways, good luck!

EDIT: I should also mention that, even when vinny's commands are recognized, or when he types commands, the robot often still doesn't understand, or performs an action totally different to what was commanded.

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If you go to the link above

http://steamcommunity.com/games/263040/announcements/detail/190591878968722392

you can how the game works with a trained profile and you'll also see what the gameplay looks like. If someone plays it without a trained profile, or doesn't realize they have to hit Enter for the input to be evaluated - you get Vinny's experience. If people don't save their speech profile or don't read anything before they jump in and play, then yes, they'll have an experience like Vinny. By the way, you can also type.

"Let's start a mission, Jimmy!" changes to "Jans left the mission jamming" THIS GAME IS AWESOME.

I love you Vinny. Never stop being you.

This is the most I've laughed in a long while. You have the patience of a Saint, Vinny.

Vincent "street, andrew, Dr. Sbasitso" Carravella

@botcolony: Please tell me your name is Jimmy.

Maybe, maybe not? A boom mic probably isn't an ideal input device. I'd love to see Vinny lose his shit again perform further tests with a proper headset just so we can laugh at him until we cry see if it has any beneficial effect. For science, of course.

Dr. Sbaitso is somehow superior to the future robot Jimmy.

Ah speech recognition, enjoying this so far. :D

Kudos to Vinny for sticking with it that long. Your patience is remarkable.

@botcolony: This is probably the best thing that could happen to your game!

If the game can not understand Vinny, how in the high hell would it understand a swedish man? I need this game in my life now.

This is so great, it's like HAL 9000's Idiot brother, from out of town :)

That's all well and good, but you do realize the vast majority of people that purchase your game are going to have an experience like Vinny's, right?

I subscribe for u @vinny xD

@sarumarine: I am one of the developers of Bot Colony. While Vinny's session is funny, the video at this link on Steam should give you an idea about what the intended game experience in Bot Colony looks like

http://steamcommunity.com/games/263040/announcements/detail/190591878968722392

Hope you enjoy it.

This is one of the most hilariously glorious train wrecks I've ever watched. Well done Vinny. :)

Lol, duder, that voice calibration was brutal! Keep up the good work, looking forward to more stuff from NY!

I wondered about that too. As funny as it is to see Vinny be Vinny all over this game, I'm super curious if a saved proper speech test at the beginning would help with any of the tasks with Jimmy. I suppose I'd be super skeptical it would change anything too much, considering where voice recognition tech is these days.

I wonder how much better this would've performed with another speech recognition software, if at all.

This should win some kind of award.

I can't believe voice recognition hasn't progressed any further than this.

fcku u jimmy

Pick up the purse Pepper Grinder

HELLO ROBOTIC MAN

My guts hurt. That was the most hilarious thing ive seen in ages. Well Done!

I'm disappointed there was no purse anywhere, so Vinny couldn't instruct the robot to pick up the purse over and over. Either way, I got some serious "BIG BOOOOOO" voice recognition vibes with this. Pepper grinder is now the new purse.

This is... game?

the problem with voice recognition is it can only do what it hears, and unfortunately it wasn't paying attention.

AKA One man's slow descent into voice-recognition madness.

Computers are the stupidest.

Vinny should win an Oscar for this piece of comedy gold.

Vinny Caravella is a national treasure!

Buddy Cop show: Vinny and the Bot

"In your ass ....in your ass.... in your ass..."

:'D

Ended exactly the way I thought it would once he started doing the voice recognition. We are a long way off from Star Trek computer voice recognition.

hahaha classic Jimmy

I watched this live last night and I was glad I stayed up until 3AM here in Tokyo. Vinny trying to read instructions to the robot and it not understanding reminded me of one class I have to teach English where they are doing a textbook too high a level for them so they have no idea what I'm saying. I share your pain Vinny

Same here. I couldn't stop laughing when that happened live. Best moment hands down.

I think this is the best thing I've ever seen. Thank you Vincent.

This was absolutely magical.