31st August 2005, 10:31 PM
They actually did that in the SOCOM games, and it worked pretty well. You gave strategic commands using voice recognition in a limited format that actually is fairly realistic. It really wasn't all that amazing though...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)