GameHub

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GameHub is an Alexa Skill for PC games (e.g. FIFA/PES) on Windows platforms to control game actions with the player’s voice. This Voice Skill allows users to play games with voice commands using a Deep Learning powered wake-word detection backend engine. ...learn more

Project status: Concept

PC Skills

Groups
Early Innovation for PC Skills

Intel Technologies
Intel CPU, Other

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Overview / Usage

Raw audio is captured from the microphone, then converted it into to a visual representation of spectrum of different frequencies present in the sound, which is a spectrogram. Thin slices of the spectrogram are then fed into to a Recurrent Neural Network model as continuous time steps. This model is trained to predict the likelihood of a character being spoken in that time frame. Putting all together such likelihoods in a sequence gives us the textual form of the words spoken in the audio input, thus converting speech to text.

This PC voice-assistant skill supports five types of actions as voice-commands:

  1. Game tactics –
    Using the command “high pressure” to change tactics of how the team plays the match

  2. Skill and moves –
    Enabling the “rainbow flick” skill in the game by giving voice command “flick right”

  3. Goal celebrations –
    Using the command “work out” to perform a unique goal-scoring celebration.

  4. Substitute Players –
    Using the command (for e.g.) “Substitute Frabegas for Kante” to perform a quick substitution.

  5. Changing Formation –
    Using Commands such as “Change formation to 3-5-2” to change formation structure to 3-5-2 of the team.

Implementing this PC voice assistant Skill will not only simplify controls in the PC games, but also act as a perfect complementary input method for PC gaming enthusiasts as it can be integrated with any PC games of the user’s choice.

Methodology / Approach

This project uses Amazon Web Services and Alexa Skills Kit. It is also uses .NET framework via Microsoft Visual Studio on the Intel-based development machine.

Technologies Used

Intel i7 8th gen
Intel HD graphics 620
Alexa Skills Kit
Amazon Web Services
MS Visual Studio 2017

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