Neural communicator

[theozz]

What is the neural communicator and how does it work? By the book it is illogical, for me, to control everything with your thoughts, but speak aloud when you call someone. It must have a microphone somewhere, too.

 

[CosmicGamer]

What is the neural communicator and how does it work? By the book it is illogical, for me, to control everything with your thoughts, but speak aloud when you call someone.

The concept here was that if you wanted a audio message of your actual voice, you would need to speak. You could still think a message and send it - like a text or email.

As with much, their could have been more put into the details.

The following is not implied by the rules but it seams possible to me and does not break the rules.

Part of ones configuration of their comm (neural or otherwise) is configuring text to speech. Maybe one wants a nice sultry voice to "read" their incoming messages to them. Maybe one want's a businesslike voice. Maybe you even want to use a sampling of your own voice to configure your text to voice translations to be heard as if it's yourself speaking. Like ringtones, one could customize different things with different voices. When listening to your to do list, you might use your own voice. When listening to your appointment reminders maybe you use a businesslike voice. Maybe you use voice samples from your family and friends (from voice messages or recorded audio conversations) so that emails/text messages converted to audio are "read" as if it is them speaking.

So your voice could be sampled and used for text to speech conversion. This data could be included with a message so that while you didn't speak it - the other side can still hear it as if it was you speaking an audio message. At lower tech levels it might be likely to realize it's a simulation of your voice but at higher tech levels it could become less noticeable.

It must have a microphone somewhere, too.

For the neural comm with audio capability, I allow one to send what they hear. No microphone would be required.

For the neural comm with visual capability, I allow one to record and send what they see with their eyes.

 

[Ataraxzy]

What is the neural communicator and how does it work? By the book it is illogical, for me, to control everything with your thoughts, but speak aloud when you call someone. It must have a microphone somewhere, too.

RAW is that the user must speak aloud to send audio messages.

When you're using a device that translates your thoughts into action, you're not going to be recording audio messages very often.

A modern-day example is the smartphone.

So, here's our Neural Comm:
"A character can access the capabilities of a
neural comm by thought alone but must still make any relevant skill
checks and must still speak aloud to send audio messages."

Now, here's a modern smartphone:
"A character can access the capabilities of a
smartphone by touch alone but must still make any relevant skill
checks and must still speak aloud to send audio messages."

Me? I text my wife FAR more often than I call her.

 

[CosmicGamer]

I'm not sure why text has, for some, become the norm/desired over audio. If someone leaves a audio message on my wifes cell phone, it converts it into text.

 

[Ataraxzy]

I'm not sure why text has, for some, become the norm/desired over audio. If someone leaves a audio message on my wifes cell phone, it converts it into text.

Perhaps it's a preference for asynchronous discussion?

 

[alex_greene]

I would love to see the autocorrect fails ...