YES, the ROBLOX developers are finally adding the VOICE CHAT feature for your compelling game. Instead of typing texts to communicate with opponents or friends, you can now send voice messages in an instant. During the Investor’s Day meeting, the Roblox developers finally announced that the gamers can now enjoy voice chat benefits.
Provided you meet the above condition, simply follow the below steps to enable the Spatial feature:
Spatial voice chat is nothing new as it can be heard a lot in games like Among Us and Sea of Thieves. The team at Roblox wanted to tackle the issue of children’s’ safety by requiring players to be the minimum age of 18 in order to use the spatial voice chat function.
“Roblox,” the gaming platform accessed daily by more than 43 million active users, many of them children, is garnering complaints from users, parents and privacy advocates after granting large groups of players access to a new voice chat feature last week.
Well, as you've probably surmised by this point, Roblox now has voice chat which was just released out of beta -- "Spatial voice chat," to be specific. Spatial voice chat is a feature that alters the volume (and sometimes the sound) of speakers depending on their position relative to you in the game world.
It was confirmed that voice chat is coming to Roblox during the studio’s Investor Day meeting on February 26th, but the feature has reportedly been in development since 2019.
There’s plenty of jokes to be found on Twitter about how annoying it will be to hear kids younger than 13 constantly screaming, but there’s more serious concerns about young players being vulnerable to explicit language and older people with ill intentions.
Note: All Roblox users must be age 18 or over to enable voice chat. Users must also verify their age by uploading Photo ID to a portal provided by Roblox. If users do not meet either of these requirements, all voice chat features will most likely be disabled and restricted from their account. Check out our Roblox Voice Chat Guide for more detailed explanations concerning these requirements.
With these steps completed, users with voice chat enabled should be able to communicate with each other in most Roblox experiences.
Coming to the first question – Is Roblox really adding a voice chat feature?. The answer to this question is Yes. Roblox is adding a voice chat feature. In fact, the new feature was already in development since 2019, as files related to it were found in Roblox application that suggested a full fledged voice chat system was in works.
And, that further, proves that, the Roblox voice feature is still in the works and the company is serious about it.
Now, that we know that the Roblox voice feature is in development. Let us talk about its official release.
13+ age verified users can opt-in to use this feature by visiting their Settings page. They will then be able to use Spatial Voice Chat in any Roblox experience that supports it.
Spatial Voice Beta is a new feature that allows people to communicate in Roblox as naturally as they communicate in the physical world.
Roblox and our Customer Support team cannot add users by request.
You can block another user in a Spatial Voice experience to prevent them from engaging with you in voice chat or text chat. Please see our help article here: How to Block Another User.
Roblox has been developing the voice chat feature since 2019.
31, 2020, Roblox had processed more than 2 billion chat messages daily. In the future, we expect to open up communication through safe voice chat, said Miller.
There’s a possibility that Roblox might introduce privacy settings where children are limited to send voice chat only to their friends. The company says that it currently employs over 2,300 trust and safety professionals to screen inappropriate content on the platform.
Though Roblox is a game for kids, it is available to people of all ages. Adding a voice chat feature to Roblox might expose younger children to inappropriate topics or bad language said between older players.
During the same meeting, Vice President of Engineering at Roblox Adam Miller said that text chat is the core of the company’s communication today. In the future, Roblox expects to open up communication via safe voice chat, said Miller.
A release date for this feature of Roblox hasn’t been announced either, but the display names can be anything the players want them to be.
It has been played over 20 billion times [1]. For a long time now, there’s speculation about Roblox adding voice chat. So, is Roblox adding voice chat feature? Yes, it is. The online game platform is all set to add a new voice chat feature. To answer the question as to when the Roblox voice chat feature is going to be live, reports suggest that there’s no release date announced by the company but the feature is expected to arrive soon in 2021.