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Microsoft Patents Real-Time Audio Censoring

9 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/microsoft-patents-real-time-audio-censoring.100496/

iMav
iMav Original post #1
Oct 23, 2008 at 11:39 PM
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.
Source.
Faun
Faun #2
Oct 23, 2008 at 11:48 PM
lol...great going but less immersion
x3060
x3060 #3
Oct 24, 2008 at 9:59 AM
what if u say the same WORDS in diff language...:-D.
naveen_reloaded
Oct 24, 2008 at 12:44 PM
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
Oct 24, 2008 at 4:05 PM
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 :D
NucleusKore
Oct 24, 2008 at 6:34 PM
what if u say the same WORDS in diff language...:-D.

Yes, reminds me of the "teri ma ki" incident on the cricket pitch. This won't work in India
C
Oct 24, 2008 at 7:33 PM
Lol.Can censor only English cusses.But anyways, good initiative taken by Microsoft.
phreak0ut
Oct 24, 2008 at 7:47 PM
This is something great! I was always wondering how this can be done. Great for radio stations :)