Voice chat is high in toxicity problems.
Voice chat is high in toxicity problems.
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Voice chat is the worst for toxicity, but 2/3 of gamers never report it | Speechly

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Online gaming has boomed over the last decade and gaming has become more social. Voice chat is the preferred way to communicate in social games, but it’s also the most toxic medium.

That’s one of the conclusions in a new report from Speechly, a Finnish startup that uses machine learning to help stop toxic speech in gaming voice chat.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.