Voicemod, a trending voice-changing and soundboard software company, introduced Voicemod Key, a USB Type-C dongle that allows voice changers and soundboards to be used on PlayStation and Xbox with the help of a mobile phone.
Due to platform limitations on game consoles, the software available as an app on Windows PCs now has dedicated hardware. As Voicemod could not build an app for PlayStation and Xbox, users have been connecting multiple audio splitters to get it to work on their phones and consoles.
Voicemod Key is a small dongle inspired by the YouTube community’s attempt to combine audio inputs and outputs to integrate the software with their gaming sessions. “They put it together and I was like, I need to try that! That was the initial idea, and with the splitter, you find problems and to solve them, we needed electronic components,” Voicemod CEO, Jochen Doppelhammer, told The Verge.
The hardware, which has two audio jacks, inputs the microphone audio into a mobile phone with the Voicemod application and then further sends the changed voice or sounds from the app directly to the console as the headset’s microphone input. The user needs to plug a wired headset into one audio jack and the game console into the other via a stereo cable. The dongle’s USB Type-C or Lightning end plugs into a phone where voice-changing features or a soundboard can be launched.
It enables Voicemod’s AI voices and real-time voice-changing features to be usable on game consoles alongwith any sounds played through a soundboard without making any changes on the game console itself. The company plans to integrate the dongle with voice chat apps eventually.
Voicemod will change the key hardware into a virtual device that loops back audio and sends the voice-changed audio to iOS or Android apps, acting as a single microphone (modified audio is viewed as microphone input). This would bring it closer to how the software currently operates on Windows or macOS with virtual audio devices.
While this is a solution for users using wired headsets, using a wireless one is not feasible unless Voicemod can build a native app on PlayStation and Xbox. The first version of Voicemod Key hardware will soon be available for registered beta testers.
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