Until now, one thing common in online games was missing from Roblox: voice chat. Players communicated with each other entirely through text messages, or using pre-set actions and sound bites.

On Thursday, Roblox announced Roblox Sentinel, an artificial intelligence system that's designed to flag inappropriate messages in its chat feature.

Players will now see a message that "Roblox automatically translates supported languages" above its in-game chat box feature across its numerous 3D worlds, according to an image in the announcement.

Roblox is breaking language barriers today as it launches AI-powered real-time chat translation in 16 languages.

Sentinel captures one-minute snapshots of chats across Roblox - about 6 billion messages per day - and analyzes them for potential harms. To do this, Roblox says it developed two indexes - one made up ...

Roblox's new AI chat translator can help you understand 16 languages in real time Now you can game with people on the other side of the world without any language barriers.

The kid-friendly online gaming platform Roblox said it is planning to introduce a "safe" voice chat option for players in the future.