Microsoft gets patent to block swearing in live audio streams

What next, political correctness gone mad.

Surely this will be attached to the section you select so if its set to family then this would come into play.

Seriously doubt it would be possibly to block people from swearing.

WTF? Freedom of speech?this motherfuckers!!!

@ david

Then the kids would learn how to bypass it so defeating the purpose.

How is it possible to do that in real time?

Some form of word recognition software most likely. Just another example of big company’s making dicky decisions.

It’ll no doubt be optional so dont go out into the streets and protest just, knowing MS they’ll probaly even make it something you have to buy…

I agree with Gekidami, it wont come out till after NXE is released, and im sure they are still working out plenty of the kinks and recognition issues

Why go so far… just add Quick Mute Option to all games like COD4.

We should all go back to typing; i remeber Quake 3 on DC, pad in both hands keyboard on your knees… No body complained!

That should be interesting. I’d wager your average Gears tard will sound much like this:

“____ you, you ____ ____ the ____ ____ _____ ____! I’m totally _____ your sister and ______ in your mom’s ______ and _____ a _____ ____ ____ _____ banana.”

Gah, you beat me to it!

It’s going to be like those guess the word things that kids have to endure in playschool.

“Mommy, the X-Box has a new game! It’s called `guess the bad word!’, can you guess?”

Edit: Actually, I take that back. Anyone who would cuss in an online game would never be as creative as Psychotext’s example, and therefore the audio would probably die off into pure silence as a string of endless and really quite nasty–but amazingly unimaginative and expected–expletives streams down the line.

It may end up being more like: “___ ___ ___ ___ ________ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ _______ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ … _________________________ ___ ___ ___ and ___ ___ ____________!!!”

It would be serenely quiet.

Swearing is a fundamental right of each gamer :O

Half the fun will be inventing new and interesting swear words which the system can’t recognise.

“You ficking dunt! You totally clucked your mom, you waggot.”

NUMBERWANGLE!

The good thing about this is – virtually every game of COD5 will be played in absolute silence

I don’t think they’ll bother blocking stuff like:

‘go and have some tea and crumpets! At least I don’t have bad teeth!’

or

‘Take that burger out of your mouth you fat yank!’

Hmm. It’ll be interesting to see which gets more publicity – the freedom of speech issue of removing religiously sensitive tracks from LBP or the freedom of speech issue that this effort might become.

I suspect I already know how it’ll get presented.

Funny this should pop up. For the first time ever I was offended by someone swearing on xbox live the other day. He was unbelievable, and I’m normally immune to every insult in the book. It was the sort of thing that would have got him an instant lamping in my local. It wasn’t very satisfying just filing a complaint. Especially as you never hear the outcome.

Anyhoo, to cut a long story short, It seems that this is a tacet admission that the “zone” (y’know, recreation, pro, underground) thing in live never worked. It seems to be completely ignored by every matchmaking system.