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Network gaming and entertainment is an important and
growing application. Stand-alone systems are increasingly becoming network-enabled,
creating a richer and more engaging gaming experience. All the major gaming
companies have announced initiatives around growing network-based capabilities
to their gaming offerings.
Next generation VoIP architectures allow gaming developers
and providers to add a new, important dimension to the gaming experience.
Using VoIP audio conferencing capabilities, gaming designers can allow
teams to share and discuss strategy or players to overhear other player
conversations in "virtual rooms".
Convedia media servers provide a variety of audio conferencing
capabilities for carrier scale voice media processing in network gaming
applications. Relevant features include:
- Announcements when players join or exit a game
- Up to 1,200 participants per game conference
- Up to 6,000 3-way conferences in a single CMS-6000
shelf
- N-way audio bridging
- N-Loudest and preferred speaker
- Independent gain control on all ports
- Automatic Gain Control (AGC)
- Automatic transcoding between codec types
- Active speaker notification
- Automatic speech recognition (ASR)
- Text-to-speech (TTS)
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