Vozisni

Vozisni is a fictional discipline used in speculative fiction and tabletop role-playing settings to study and apply voice-directed control of mechanical systems. The term is described in-world as a compound of voice and a root meaning to move, treated as both a practical science and a sociocultural practice.

Origins and scope: The concept is traced to in-world scholars in the late 22nd century, with schools and guilds in urban centers such as Nyr and Halden. Vozisni encompasses hardware interfaces (microphones, transducers, haptic feedback), software pipelines (speech recognition, command mapping, safety filters), and social considerations (privacy, consent, accessibility). Its aims include enabling intuitive interaction with machines while maintaining reliability and safety in dynamic environments.

Core concepts: Voice command grammars, robust error handling, and multimodal input (combining voice with gestures or gaze) are central to vozisni. The discipline emphasizes layered safety protocols, redundancy, and calibration procedures to mitigate misinterpretation and unintended actions.

Applications and portrayal: In fiction, vozisni enables hands-free control of vehicles, rescue drones, prosthetic limbs, and industrial robots. It is often used to explore technical limits, latency, and user experience, and to contrast voice interfaces with text- or gesture-based systems. Ethical debates in the narratives focus on credentialing, surveillance, consent, and the potential for coercive or erroneous control.

Notable works: The Vozisni Codex (fictional treatise), The Voice as Guide (in-world essay). See also: human-computer interaction, voice user interface, speech recognition, embodied AI.