Disclosed is a toy interactive method and device. The method comprises: a medium sample is collected and reference sample information of the medium sample is generated; a playing content of a medium being played is collected; characteristic information of the collected playing content is extracted; the extracted characteristic information is matched with the reference sample information to obtain a matching result; according to the obtained matching result, a to-be-played content that is to be played after a predetermined time period in the medium being played is predicted; and according to the predicted to-be-played content, a toy is driven to synchronously execute an interactive content corresponding to the to-be-played content at a corresponding time point after the predetermined time period. Through the toy interactive method and device, the technical problem is solved.

This application discloses a method and apparatus for determining characteristics of a sound source. The method may include: acquiring a first position of a first virtual role controlled by an application client in a virtual scene; detecting, in a sound source detection area associated with the first position, a second position of a sound source virtual object in the virtual scene; determining transparency of a position mark that matches the sound source virtual object, according to a sound source distance between the first position and the second position, the position mark identifying the second position of the sound source virtual object; and displaying, on an interaction interface of the application client, the position mark of the sound source virtual object according to the transparency.

A method for handling communication for a computer game is provided. Once example method includes executing an application for recording one or more audio messages authored by a user for automatic transmission to one or more recipients during game play of a video game. During game play, the method includes detecting that a qualifying event has occurred, and, in response, selecting an audio message from the one or more audio messages for the automatic transmission. The method further includes transmitting, automatically, the audio message to a client device of a predefined recipient for presentation of the audio message.

A system is provided, including the following: an input device, the input device including, a light emitting diode (LED) array; an image capture device configured to capture images of an interactive environment in which the input device is disposed, the image capture device configured to generate captured image data that is processed to determine a movement of the input device in the interactive environment; wherein a gearing is established that adjusts an amount by which the movement of the input device is mapped to movement of an image that is rendered to a display, the gearing changing to different settings during the movement of the image as the movement of the image is rendered to the display.

Examples described herein provide various devices that enable users to participate in a session. The examples allow a user that is unable to hear, or that is incapable of hearing, to participate in an in-session voice chat by receiving text messages that have been converted from speech to text (e.g., transcribed messages). The user enables a speech-to-text conversion feature on his or her own device. Based on the enabled feature, a notification can be sent to other devices participating in the session. Based on the notification, the other devices are tasked with capturing utterances and sending corresponding speech data to a speech-to-text conversion device so that voice communications can be converted to text messages. Subsequent to conversion, the text messages can be displayed in a chat interface presented as part of the displayed content for the session.

A mobile computing device provides real-time streaming of multiple sources of audio and video. The mobile computing device receives audio and video streams from multiple sources, including a camera video stream, a microphone audio stream, a game audio stream, and a game video stream. The device adjusts microphone and/or the game input levels based on a user-selected audio mix setting to produce rebalanced microphone and game audio streams, multiplexes the rebalanced microphone and game audio streams to produce a multiplexed audio stream, and encodes the multiplexed audio stream to produce an encoded audio stream. The user-selected audio mix setting may be adjusted by a user of the mobile computing device. The mobile computing device packages the encoded audio stream with an encoded video stream of composited camera and game video streams into one or more streaming packets, and outputs the one or more streaming packets.

A method for managing multi-player interactivity with an interactive application is provided, including the following method operations: determining a location of a first controller; determining a location of a second controller; determining a location of a biometric identifier of a first user; determining a location of a biometric identifier of a second user; pairing the first controller to the first user based on the location of the first controller and the location of the biometric identifier of the first user; pairing the second controller to the second user based on the location of the second controller and the location of the biometric identifier of the second user.

Game client, game server, Web application server, and database server including database with data representative of a virtual world. Game client or server, or both, includes motifs, motif manager, character manager, scenes-a-faire manager, and display manager coupled to display, all in communication with game manager, and pseudorandomizer, which can instigate changing of a motif. Motifs are representative of a game character or environment. A user interface has mass sensor, accelerometer, haptic device, first device for visual input, output, or both, second device for audio input, output, or both, and tactile sensor, effector or both. Included may be automatic translator, or TTS/STT module. The online game can be virtual world representative of at least two of a northern continent, a western continent, a southern continent, a central continent, and an eastern continent. Methods provide game client, game server, and a database that manipulate character or environment motifs and scenes-a-faire.

A method is provided, including: receiving inertial data from an input device, the inertial data being generated from one or more inertial sensors of the input device; receiving captured image data from an image capture device configured to capture images of an interactive environment in which the input device is disposed, the input device having a light emitting diode (LED) array that generates infrared light; processing the inertial data and the captured image data to determine a movement of the input device in the interactive environment; establishing a gearing that adjusts an amount by which the movement of the input device is mapped to movement of an image that is rendered to a display; changing the gearing to different settings during the movement of the image as the movement of the image is rendered to the display.

Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure may be used to help train speech recognizers for improving generalized voice experience quality in a chat bot system. In some embodiments, the system provides users with games to play to increase user engagement with the chat bot system.