Riot Games will listen to voice communication in Valorant in case of ‘disruptive behavior’

Riot Games will listen to the voice communication in its game Valorant if there are reports about ‘disruptive behaviour’. The developer wants to automate that by training a language model that can recognize such behavior. It should go live as a beta later this year.

From July 13 Riot Games starts with a test in North America, with the English language. That test is intended to train the language model and ‘to get the technology working properly’ before the start of the beta later this year.

During the test, the method is not yet used to draw conclusions about misbehavior of players in the voice chat. The company says it must first be sure of the tool’s efficiency and identify false positives and negatives.

At the end of April, Riot Games has the Valorant’s terms and conditions have already been adjusted† It states that the company will record voice communications if a disruptive behavior report is submitted. Based on that recording, the company may want to take actions. The recordings will be deleted when they are no longer needed for the review, according to the company.