By Emma Boyle
Microsoft will soon introduce a new feature to Xbox One and Windows 10 PCs called Game Chat Transcription.
When enabled, the feature will work in two ways: players will be able to turn their chats from speech to text so that they can read their in-game chats on their screen in real-time, or they’ll be able to choose text to speech which will result in their typed text being spoken aloud to other players in the game.
The feature is intended to make multiplayer games more accessible experiences by giving players even more ways to communicate during games which is a wonderful thing to see.
However, outside of accessibility it’s also useful for players who want to participate in chat but have no desire to actually listen to it. We imagine the number of players that fall into that category is fairly high.
Multiplayer mayhem
Just be prepared to see every awful thing that slips out of your mouth during the heat of gameplay laid down in writing before you.
It appears that the function has to be supported by the games themselves. Microsoft plans to bring chat transcription to its first title, Halo Wars 2, very soon. It’s said there …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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