Seaman creator Yoot Saito on the fishy Dreamcast AI that was way ahead of its time

The keywords are the ‘cards’ that are played back and forth between the end-user and the game character (Seaman).
Most gamers wouldn’t realize it, but Seaman is a game with a lot of push-pull game elements in the same way as poker.
It’s a language great for emphatically sharing subjective feelings, so Japanese really connects to deep parts of a speaker’s emotions.
However, when speaking of voice recognition as a technology, when you try to cross a certain threshold (like human), intelligence is required, not hearing ability.
In other words, what’s indispensable is not voice recognition technology, but rather understanding of artificial intelligence.