MONTREAL, Nov. 21 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- VoiceAge Corporation, the world’
s premier supplier of speech and audio codecs, announced today that Sony
Computer Entertainment, the leading global provider of consumer electronics
and entertainment products, has licensed audio compression technology from
VoiceAge to dramatically enhance voice communications in the multi-player
online gaming experience of Resistance: Fall of Man. Created and developed by
Insomniac Games and scheduled to premier with the launch of the "PlayStation
(R)3" system this month, the much anticipated Resistance: Fall of Man
leverages VoiceAge’s audio compression technology to deliver online multi-
player gaming with the added dimension and realism of high-quality speech
communication. Other game titles are expected to follow this lead to take
advantage of VoiceAge’s technology for substantially enhanced voice
communication in online gaming.
According to Laurent Amar, president of VoiceAge, "VoiceAge is proud to
contribute to the impressive realism of playing Resistance: Fall of Man on
the PS3 online with many other players -- with this added capability
Insomniac Games and Sony Computer Entertainment America are poised to deliver
an unmatched game-playing experience." Mr. Amar added, "People are
essentially social beings with a strong attraction for teaming and
communicating. Therefore, the addition of reliable and high quality voice to
online multi-player experiences will enhance the naturalness of communication
between the players -- capturing the emotion and intensity of each player far
beyond what is attainable through exchanging text messages. This type of
dynamic and scalable speech communication promises to dramatically increase
game player excitement and satisfaction." Mr. Amar also highlighted that
VoiceAge’s audio compression technologies are well positioned in various
electronic gaming standards bodies as the solution of choice for bandwidth-
efficient speech and full-audio compression solutions across a wide variety
of platforms, including mobile devices.
About VoiceAge Corporation
VoiceAge(R) is a leading developer of digital speech and audio
compression solutions for devices that operate over wired and wireless
networks, including internet, cellular, Wi-Fi, WiMAX and convergence
applications as well as consumer electronics equipment and toys. Our business
activities are focus on: speech and audio compression technology R&D,
standardization, codec and audio processing software implementations and IPR
licensing. Using designs based on our widely deployed flagship ACELP(R)
technology platform, VoiceAge speech and audio codec solutions deliver
unsurpassed quality experienced daily by well over two billion users
worldwide.
VoiceAge and ACELP are registered trademarks of VoiceAge Corporation in
Canada and/or other countries. INSOMNIAC GAMES and the Insomniac Games logo
are the registered trademarks of Insomniac Games, Inc. "PLAYSTATION" is a
registered trademark of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. All other trademarks
are the property of their respective owners.
