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

Riot Games will listen to the voice communication in its game Valorant if there are reports of ‘disruptive behavior’. 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 player misbehavior in the voice chat. The company says it must first be sure of the efficiency of the tool and be able to identify false positives and negatives.

At the end of April, Riot Games released the conditions of Valorant already adjusted. It states that the company will record voice communications if a report for disruptive behavior is filed. The company may want to take action on the basis of this recording. The recordings, according to the company, will be deleted when they are no longer needed for the review.