Gym Class VR is a basketball game that was preparing to launch on Meta Quest after a very successful Beta. Voice chat is an important social element of the game, but the team noticed evidence of toxic behavior emerging. After trying speech recognition from cloud service providers, they quickly learned this was a cost-prohibitive approach and turned to Speechly.
Collin Borns
Mar 20, 2023
5 min read
Speechly surveyed over 1000 online gamers about toxic behavior in voice and text chat. The results show offensive names, trolling, bullying and annoying behavior top the list with the broadest impact. However, these behaviors are between 50%-200% more frequent in voice chat.
Collin Borns
Mar 09, 2023
3 min read
Speechly commissioned a survey of a nationally representative sample of over 1000 gamers. The survey found that nearly 70% of gamers have used voice chat at least once. Of those, 72% said they've experienced a toxic incident. Read more today in the Full Report.
Otto Söderlund
Mar 08, 2023
3 min read
This week the Speechly team released two new product updates. These updates include a new conformer AI model as an update to our original LSTM models and an updated Whisper solution with coverage for 99 languages.
Antti Ukkonen
Feb 17, 2023
3 min read
Speech recognition technology has come a long way in recent years leading to more interest in deploying on-device solutions as an alternative to cloud-based solutions. Why? The benefits of improved privacy and lower cost without any impact in accuracy.
Antti Ukkonen
Feb 08, 2023
4 min read
The annual ADL report about harassment in multiplayer video games showed a significant problem worsening. Voice Chat is once again a leading channel for concern.
Collin Borns
Jan 27, 2023
3 min read
ADL's annual report about harassment in online multiplayer games paints a negative picture for young people and adults alike. Is 2023 the year the gaming industry will start to overcome these challenges?
Collin Borns
Jan 18, 2023
2 min read
The most popular voice assistants (Alexa, Siri, Google) use half-duplex architectures, meaning the user and assistant must take turns to speak. However, Full-duplex systems employ real-time understanding where the system begins predicting the user intent from the very first word uttered, unlocking the ability for Proactive Content Moderation.
Hannes Heikinheimo
Dec 09, 2022
8 min read
Voice chat is a popular feature in games, the metaverse, and social media networks but it comes with challenges like harassment and toxic behavior. This post breaks down our keynote at VOICE 22 exploring how Speechly helps solve these issues.
Collin Borns
Nov 17, 2022
1 min read