Microsoft to improve voice comms on Xbox Live

Subject: Microsoft to improve voice comms on Xbox Live Fri Aug 27, 2010 6:01 am

Microsoft's Jerry Johnson, who runs Xbox Live, has said the firm will be improving the sound quality of voice communication when it updates the service around the launch of Kinect.

Currently, we're using a speech codec that was optimised for the slow and puny broadband that we had when Xbox Live originally launched. Now we all have pipes of unprecedented girth, Microsoft can crank it up a bit more.

"The codec we used when we first launched was a low bit rate codec and we stuck with that," said Johnson, speaking at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival and recorded by Eurogamer.

"We launched and we said we required broadband. We required a 64k connection, which not many people think of as broadband any longer. But that was the minimum requirement to run the service at the time.

"It's time for us to move on. Especially if we want to think about broadening - a crackly headset on the top of your head - not what people think of when they talk about popular entertainment."

sounds good, maybe fatgamers blue whale calls could be heard now!

Well it will definitely be clearer when you yell to people "Muted!" and then that is followed by a rage quit montage.

yeah! and wed be able to hear your heavy breathing from when you have to push buttons down (we know thats strenuous for ya cg, its ok)!

Well we can probably hear you dropping your monocle for sure then! Then in your haste to pick it up, another one of your care packages has been hijacked! Slap!
"I got an AC-130 in a care package!" -Fusion "Enemy AC-130 in the air" -MW2 announcer after Fusion got his Care package jacked.....again.

psshhhh i havent had my carepackage jacked in a month. that shit only happens when hh is on, and coincidentally he hasnt been on much lately

we all know we will be able to hear fusion taking it in the ass

MoH Striker wrote:: we all know we will be able to hear fusion taking it in the ass

"Those bullets curved like a penis!" -Fusion

crapgamer wrote:

MoH Striker wrote:: we all know we will be able to hear fusion taking it in the ass

"Those bullets curved like a penis!" -Fusion

oh my goood thats a real quote to rofl

w01fsk7aag wrote:

crapgamer wrote:

MoH Striker wrote:: we all know we will be able to hear fusion taking it in the ass

"Those bullets curved like a penis!" -Fusion

oh my goood thats a real quote to rofl

ACTUALLY. thats is NOT a real quote

the real quote is:

Quote :: OMG THAT RPG CURVED LIKE A PENIS!!!

no actually you've said both after we made fun of you for saying the rpg one you said it about everything

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Because ur a gay ferret

w01fsk7aag wrote:: no actually you've said both after we made fun of you for saying the rpg one you said it about everything

nope. but hey, thats what a kid can say when hes been kicked out of his house.... slap

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Awww snap son it just got raw up in dis witch

I think Microsoft should add the PSN experience to their voice communication. Wind tunnels activated!

THE GLASSES DOUBLE AS WIND PROTECTION GUYS. 3D IS WHERE ITS AT OBVIOUSLY!

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