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Blizzard has begun deploying audio transcription to help combat abuse and toxicity in Overwatch 2's voice chat.
Rolling out across "select countries" and currently only for those playing on PC, Blizzard says the new tech is "only for reports of disruptive behaviour" and any "temporary audio recordings" - which "no one listens to" - will be "quickly deleted after being transcribed".
"The audio transcription feature has been added with a limited rollout for PC players in select countries," Blizzard explained via a blog post. "As a piece of our Defense Matrix initiative, audio transcriptions allow us to analyse a transcript from a temporary voice chat recording of a reported player.