Conversational Audio Game Engine (CAGE)

Modern voice technology allows computers to ‘understand’ what we say / speak (e.g speech recognition and interpretation) and respond with artificial speech that we can understand (e.g. AI voices). Popular examples include: Siri, Alexa, and Google virtual assistants. But this technology - voice as a Human-Computer Interface - has a variety of applications in gaming too. A Conversational Audio Game is a cross between an audio drama - a content-rich story that you listen to, in a world that you paint in your mind - and an adventure game - a story that you can play, exploring locations, solving puzzles, interacting with characters to fulfil your destiny. Your voice and thoughts are all that you need. This project is a testbed for merging cutting-edge conversational AI and voice technologies into the gaming world - initially, story-led adventure games. We believe that, in the future, these technologies will be an integral part of mainstream games and interactive worlds.