Microsoft gets patent on broadcast censorship solution
ENT News | at | by Mike
On-line gamers using profanity in audio chat sessions may have their act cleaned up if Microsoft has anything to say about it.
On Oct. 14, Microsoft was issued a patent for an Automatic Censorship of Audio Data for Broadcast, according to the United States Patent Office. The new audio filter goes beyond the "bleep" by actually replacing objectionable words with generally acceptable words or reducing the "undesired speech" so that it is "no longer perceivable by a listening audience," according to the patent.