Microsoft Patents Real-Time Audio Censoring

[iMav]

The only way I would ever let a child of mine play a game over Xbox Live with voice chat enabled is if Microsoft created some kind of magical audio filtering technology that could sense dirty words as they were being spoken and censor them in real-time. Applied for back in 2004, the patent describes a method by which:

An input audio data stream comprising speech is processed by an automatic censoring filter in either a real-time mode, or a batch mode, producing censored speech that has been altered so that undesired words or phrases are either unintelligible or inaudible.

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[Faun]

lol...great going but less immersion

 

[x3060]

what if u say the same WORDS in diff language....

 

[naveen_reloaded]

this can in fututre expanded to radio and other audio sources...kepp it in mind...

nowadays i am starting to doubt all these big fat corporates...

 

[dheeraj_kumar]

Its good, this technology. Combination of real-time media processing, combined with speech recognition, I think. But we can swear for sure, it would take ages to blacklist every Indian swear word

 

[naveen_reloaded]

^^^ LOL ^^^ tru buddy true!!!

 

[NucleusKore]

what if u say the same WORDS in diff language....

Yes, reminds me of the "teri ma ki" incident on the cricket pitch. This won't work in India

 

[Count Dracula]

Lol.Can censor only English cusses.But anyways, good initiative taken by Microsoft.

 

[phreak0ut]

This is something great! I was always wondering how this can be done. Great for radio stations