[hobofan]

Depending on what the desired level of "allowed exposure" is, manual reports + reviews can also work, without having up-front always-on live redaction of the audio feed.

E.g. while it's not perfect, Valorant's audio chats are a lot less toxic than many comparable FPS games via such a system. Of course that still won't protect you from one-off hearing slurs.

So that + elective client side filtering (if you really never want to experience profanity), seems like the best of both worlds.

[tsukikage]

> manual reports + reviews can also work

manual reports + reviews requires recording the feed for later review; real-time filtering does not. A number of other commenters have mentioned that being recorded bothers them; those folk should be arguing for the real-time AI moderator.

[viraptor]

I'm not sure how many people are interested in not hearing abuse -vs- not playing with abusive people. If someone called your name and then you heard bleeping, you know exactly what happened anyway. Is there actually a group of people happy with that result?