Valorant Voice Evaluation Update: release date and everything we know so far

With the debut of its new Voice Evaluation System in North America, Riot Games highlighted its most recent initiatives to address disruptive behaviour in Valorant.

This happened as a result of the creators’ updating their privacy notice and terms of service in April, which now permits the recording of audio interactions while playing a game when complaints are made about toxic or abusive player behaviour.

While Riot Games understands the value of voice communication in its game, it also recognises that some players abuse voice communications technology to create a hostile environment that is unsuitable for competitive or recreational play.

This month, Valorant celebrated its second anniversary. Since the game’s release in 2020, the developers have put a lot of effort into keeping it entertaining and captivating for the players. To that purpose, they have created new maps, Agents, and other intriguing new features with each release. Let’s find out what the new update entails.

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The Voice Evaluation Update will debut in North America on Wednesday 13th July 2022, according to a Tweet from the official Valorant Twitter website. To train language models and have the technology ready for a test rollout later this year, the update will initially be available only in English.

On July 13 we'll begin a background launch of the voice evaluation system in North America/English-only to help train our language models and get the tech in a good enough place for a beta launch later this year. Read more: https://t.co/MYmBfGq8QO pic.twitter.com/RBQRMBwbeN

Riot announced these ideas earlier this year as part of its Valorant Systems Health series, which also