How Sony’s PS5 Would Work with a Built-in AI Voice Assistant

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With Sony’s new PS5 coming equipped with the latest hardware, it wouldn’t be too farfetched to imagine it with a built-in voice assistant. In this case, it’s called ‘Ellie’, inspired by the character from the game The Last of Us. Think of Ellie as Microsoft’s Clippy, but for games, a she will be able to guide you through new games or answer any questions you might have.

You would also be able to ask it to perform in-game tasks, such as saving progress or loading a file. Just to recap its impressive hardware, the PlayStation 5 comes with AMD’s 7nm Zen 2 microarchitecture consisting of 8 CPU cores running at a variable frequency capped at 3.5 GHz, while its GPU is a semi-custom, RDNA 2 system-on-a-chip (SoC). Unlike the PS4, this GPU supports hardware acceleration of real-time ray tracing and also has a new Tempest Engine, which can process hundreds of audio sources within a game and how that sound is presented, based on the end user’s device.