On May 26, 2021 IGS· Global Digital Innovation And Development Conference “Tencent Cloud · Games & New Entertainment Sub-Forum” was successfully concluded in Chengdu. In this BBS, tencent cloud multimedia game engine (GME) the senior product manager Zheng Dingyi titled “technical change under the perspective of game voice new play” of the speech, to share the GME how to update their own ability and the technology, so as to meet the current demand increasingly change in-game voice, to bring better game experience.

At the scene of the BBS

Tencent cloud game multimedia engine GME

As a one-stop game voice service, GME is dedicated to enabling developers through voice technology and ecological pathways. GME has three basic capabilities. Real-time voice is used in real-time call scenarios such as voice hacking. Voice message to text is common in situations like voice to text on chat channels; Voice analysis can match various types of sensitive and illegal words and contents in real-time voice streams to assist the review and supervision. Meanwhile, it also supports the user-defined illegal words library to prevent advertising users from opening Myra.

GME Basic skills

New trends in game voice

The more mature field of traditional game voice mainly involves multiplayer online game play, such as voice blackouts in MOBA/ Eat Chicken games, real-time call in MMORPGS, or chat on the world channel and friends channel in games. At the same time, as games have matured and the industry has changed, new ways of playing with voice have emerged. For example, the voice commentary of game events live broadcast, the accompanying play of games, and the online board games with increasing popularity in recent years all rely heavily on voice. There are three trends in gameplay, players’ habits and minds:

  • Players demand a higher quality game and a more immersive voice experience

  • The homogenization of gameplay leads to aesthetic fatigue of players, which requires more abundant phonetic gameplay support

  • The enhancement of the social attributes of games, the two-way penetration of social and game, needs to build a more complete game voice social ecology

Evolution of voice gameplay in games

**GME exclusive solution **

First, for a more immersive voice experience, GME found a partner, Wwise engine, to achieve an original voice processing strategy. Wwise itself is the most professional sound engine in the world. It is the necessary software for game sound designers at home and abroad. It can realize the rich and delicate processing of sound effects, and reflect the changes of sound effects by combining physical models with physical space and materials in the game.

GME is responsible for processing the voice stream of players. With the help of Wwise, the voice stream of players when they are talking is integrated into the physical space of the game, so that the voice of players can also change with the scene in the game, restoring the most real and immersive game experience for players.

GME can feed each player’s voice stream into wwISE’s processing pipeline independently, providing maximum design space for sound designers and game planners to achieve customized voice effects for players in different environments. For example, different reverberation effects of voice in different Spaces can be achieved, and the sound effects in real physical space can be restored with maximum 360 degree sense of orientation; In the case of obstacles, to achieve sound in the real world, such as refraction, diffraction and barrier effects.

Gme-wwise sound engine exclusive solution

Secondly, aiming at all kinds of new gameplay of game voice, such as various popular online board games such as Werewolf Kill and draw me guess, GME also made a deep perspective of voice needs and provided scenarie-oriented function design. For example, the support of custom audio routing, so that the reception and transmission of speech is defined, combined with the millisecond level of the effect of switching voice room, to achieve a variety of higher-order werewolf killing gameplay. In addition, for other types of online board games, GME provides real-time voice to text capability, which can automatically recognize and judge the voice stream on the client.

GME offers a wealth of feature support for new voice gameplay

Finally, for the third social trend of voice play, GME and Douyu, the leading game live broadcast platform in the industry, have jointly created a voice solution for game live scenes. When the game is live broadcast on Douyu platform, the voice stream of the game players and the game audio stream can be shared by the audio bus, which can effectively solve the silent problem of live broadcast caused by the switch of device sound type caused by the open voice during the live broadcast. This solves the problem at the technical level of the GME, requiring no additional processing by the developer.

GME- Douyu live exclusive joint program

Multi-end adaptation, global coverage

GME’s competitive edge is that it supports all major game engines perfectly, is compatible with all system versions and models of terminals, and supports cross-platform interoperability. In addition, GME is officially licensed by Nintendo Switch and SONY PS4/PS5 to serve as an authorized third-party voice plugin for game developers. Currently, GME is the only third-party voice service licensed by these host brands in China.

GME perfect multi-terminal adaptation

In addition, the service nodes of GME have achieved global coverage with the overseas expansion of Tencent Cloud, and GME has been selected and recognized by many overseas and overseas customers.

In the future, GME will continue to help games achieve rich, innovative gameplay and immersive sound experiences, regardless of the needs and gameplay of game voice.

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