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Nintendo announces Wii Speak Channel
Nintendo announces Wii Speak Channel
As one of the last two announcements for their fall media summit , Nintendo has announced the Wii Speak Channel for use with the Wii microphone ( pictured , from E3 2008). According to Cammy Dunaway, up to four people can chat together, and the microphones will come with a coupon to download ...
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Nintendo unveils Wii Speak channel for four-way voice chats
Engadget — ... announced the Wii Speak channel, that will allow for up to four people to voice chat directly without all that pesky fishing and digging and tea sipping and cute getting in the way. Unfortunately, literally nothing else is known about the feature -- we're curious if we can use that USB mic we got for karaoke, and we're sure you have burning questions of your own, but Nintendo's clearly going to debut this feature and the related hardware in its own sweet time. [Via Joystiq]Read | Permalink | Email this ...

Wii Speak Channel will use Wii microphone for multi-user chatting
SlashGear — ... .  The Wii Speak Microphone was first mentioned at E3, but Nintendo’s Cammy Dunaway brought the plug-in device up again at the Fall Media Summit yesterday.  Intended to allow voice conversation between gamers without requiring a microphone headset, the microphone will allow access to Nintendo’s Wii Speak Channel. ...

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GeekBrief.TV — Shownotes: In an interview with CIO Magazine, Steve Balmer said they’re working on porting the Zune software to Windows Mobile. Sony’s eBook reader, the PRS-700, was announced today. It’ll have a touch screen, allowing you to “flip” pages with the swipe of a finger. It’ll be available at the end of October. Wii Speak is a new channel on the Wii. With a Wii mic, and you and three other people can voice chat. The Nerd Girls are a group of women ...

Wii Speak Channel announced by Nintendo
Newlaunches.com — ... Nintendo brings forth double joy with the announcement of the Wii Speak Channel for use with the Wii microphone. You and three other friends will be able to chat via the channel, and its downloading coupon is bundled with the microphone. Apparently little else is known about the channel so answers to questions like, can we use another mic, or release date, price; and what else can we do with the channel besides speak; all have to be put on hold till we gather some story on this. Source

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