Powder, which is an AI-powered clipping software, can now identify when gamers shout during their streams. This feature aims to help creators produce even better montages. The platform is also working on speech-to-text software, which will allow creators to receive a transcript of their entire stream and search for specific keywords.
Powder has developed over 40 proprietary AI models specific to various games, including audio analysis and laughter detection. They have also created standalone models for popular titles such as Fortnite, Valorant, Apex Legends, Call of Duty, Rocket League, Fall Guys, Elden Ring, and Among Us. The company is also launching a model for Counter-Strike 2.
All the models function similarly – the AI scans the stream recordings, whether from Twitch, YouTube, or an MP4 file, and identifies spikes in activity, including victories, assists, kills, and other in-game moments. Powder then captures these highlights and creates short montages for creators to share on social media.
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In addition to its laughter recognition capability, the platform will soon introduce another AI tool that can recognize voice fluctuations, allowing creators to generate clips of themselves shouting – a common reaction when playing intense ranked matches. The company expects to launch this feature in mid-December.
Barthélémy Kiss, co-founder and CEO of Powder, explained, “The best moments in gaming are highly subjective and need to be reflected with several different perspectives that go beyond the gameplay itself. This made us certain that we needed to capture the emotion of playing games with your community. This combination of skill-based moments and deeply emotional moments is what makes gaming content creation unique and special.”
Next month, the platform will also introduce speech-to-text technology, providing creators with a transcript of their streams and enabling them to quickly search for specific words and pull up the best highlights. Streamers can also enter mood prompts, such as “Find me five funny clips where my fans go crazy.” The software uses gamer lingo to enhance accuracy and precision.
“Being able to search and contextualize clips in long videos like Twitch streams with AI is the holy grail for content creators and the teams who support them, from their video editors to their agents and managers,” Kiss added.
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Furthermore, Powder is updating its “Community Hype” feature, which will be available next week. Launched in September, this AI model detects chat spikes. The update will recommend clips where the community “goes crazy,” Kiss said.
“The release of the second phase of Community Hype detection is to unlock another perspective weighing in on what makes a ‘highlight moment’ in a stream. One dimension of that is understanding what the community, who knows a streamer best, thinks. Communities have a great sense of what matters in a given gaming session or stream. In this latest release, when the community goes crazy and wants to remember a moment, that’s a moment that Powder AI will recommend you keep as a clip to share,” he explained.
According to a survey conducted by Powder with over 3,200 streamers, creators spend an average of 53 hours a month or 630 hours a year searching for highlights and editing clips. Powder claims to save streamers more than 10 hours per week or 520 hours a year.
The France-based startup was established in 2018 by Kiss, Yannis Mangematin, Stanislas Coppin, and Christian Navelot. To date, the company has raised $22 million in funding.
