Sony patents game voice analysis to match players by social style
Sony describes a system that listens to a player's voice during a game to figure out their social preferences, such as how much they want to talk or interact. It then uses this data to pick other players for multiplayer sessions and adjust the audio they hear, like filtering out certain voices or changing volume levels.
In the filing’s own words
System, process and device configurations are provided for detecting user socialization preferences and controlling multiplayer selection. A method can include receiving user voice output during gameplay for a first user, and determining a socialization preference for the first user based on the user voice output. The method may also include updating a user profile for the first user based on the socialization preference, selecting at least one second user, and controlling a gameplay session for the first user and the at least one second user, wherein audio output for the first user is controlled using a the user profile. Socialization preferences detected during gameplay may be used to select other users for multiplayer game sessions. The socialization preferences may also be used to control audio output by way of selection/terminating players from a session, filtering audio output to a user, filtering intensity and/or modifying audio output to a user.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1 - 20. (canceled)
Facts
- Company
- Sony (Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.)
- Official title
- Systems and Methods for Detecting Socialization Preferences and Controlling Multiplayer Selection
- Publication number
- US20260295434A1
- Application number
- 19567878
- Filed
- Mar 16, 2026
- Published
- Oct 1, 2026
- Inventors
- 5
- Claims
- 21
Classified under
A63F 13/69 Human necessitiesA63F 13/424 Human necessitiesA63F 13/87 Human necessitiesA63F 13/795 Human necessitiesMore from Sony in Games & media
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