Voicemod is breaking free from the PC with this tiny gadget

Changing your character’s outfit in a sport takes seconds. You can swap skins, change your username, decide a distinct loadout, and customarily make your on-line character look nonetheless you need. Changing the way you sound, although, has historically been slightly extra sophisticated — particularly for those who’re taking part in on a cellphone or console. Voicemod needs to repair that with the Voicemod Key Pocket, a tiny {hardware} system that brings the corporate’s real-time voice altering and soundboards to smartphones, tablets, consoles, and social apps while not having a PC within the center.

The concept is easy: plug the Key Pocket into your system, join a headset, and begin altering your voice when you discuss to others. It works alongside the Voicemod app, the place you’ll be able to browse greater than 200 unique voices alongside 1000’s of community-created choices.

It will get round certainly one of cellular’s largest limitations

Voice-changing software program is way more widespread on PCs for a cause. Mobile working techniques typically don’t let one app seize your microphone audio, modify it in actual time, after which feed that altered audio straight into one other sport or social app. Voicemod’s resolution is to maneuver a part of that job into devoted {hardware}. Key Pocket primarily acts as an audio bridge, dealing with the voice transformation domestically as an alternative of counting on a PC.

That opens the door to utilizing Voicemod whereas taking part in video games corresponding to Fortnite, Roblox, PUBG, and Call of Duty Mobile, however gaming isn’t the one use case. The firm says it’ll additionally work with social and communication apps corresponding to Discord and video calls. The {hardware} itself has an LED wheel for controlling voices, programmable buttons for shortly switching results or triggering soundboard clips, and a devoted mute button. It helps each wired and Bluetooth headsets, and USB-C passthrough enables you to cost your cellphone when you use it. It even helps MagSafe, so the little field can connect on to appropriate telephones and circumstances relatively than dangling from a cable.

Your ridiculous gaming voice can observe you in every single place

More curiously, Key Pocket isn’t restricted to telephones. Voicemod says it helps the PlayStation 4 and PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch 2, and Meta Quest 2, 3, and 3S. On PlayStation and Xbox, it connects via the controller’s 3.5mm headphone jack. Users additionally get entry to Voicemod’s monumental library of neighborhood content material, together with greater than 76,000 community-made voices and over 800,000 sounds and memes. That means the Key Pocket can double as a transportable soundboard, with programmable buttons that allow you to fireplace off sounds with out digging via an app mid-game.

It’s a intelligent approach across the restrictions which have saved Voicemod largely tied to PCs till now. More importantly, it means the identical voice setup can probably observe you from a cellular sport to your console or Discord chat with out rebuilding every little thing from scratch. Voicemod Key Pocket is on the market now within the US, with Europe and different markets anticipated to observe.