'Voice Skins' Could Let Gamers Customize Their Voices Online

Online, we can be whoever we want--a bulked-up soldier, a freakish banana, Sonic the Hedgehog--only until we start speaking. Over any online game's built-in chat or Discord, our voices have the power to immediately reveal information about our geographic region, our gender, even our ethnicity. Now, a company that makes "voice skins" is trying to change that, too. "You go online and have the freedom to design your avatar, choose your username, pick what communities you jump into. You can design your online persona completely separately from who you are in the real world," said Modulate founder Mike Pappas.