November 21, 2006
VoiceAge Technology Enhances Resistance: Fall of Man’s Online Multi-Player Gaming Experience on Sony’s “PLAYSTATION®3” System
Montreal, November 21, 2006 – 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®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® 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 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® technology platform, VoiceAge speech and audio codec solutions deliver unsurpassed quality experienced daily by well over two billion users worldwide.
Contact
Baris Demir, Director of Marketing
VoiceAge Corporation, Montreal, Canada
baris.demir@voiceage.com
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