> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://devdocs.xbox.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Game Chat 2 overview

> Learn how the Game Chat 2 tool adds voice and text chat to your XBOX GDK game while respecting each player's privacy settings and platform policies.

Use this tool to add voice and text chat communications to your app while respecting your users' privacy settings. You can also fulfill the XBOX console GDK title requirements that are related to voice and text chat.

## In this section

[Intro to Game Chat 2](/services/xbox-services/multiplayer/chat/game-chat2/game-chat-2-intro)
Describes how to add voice and text communications to a game using XBOX Game Chat 2.

[Using the Game Chat 2 C++ API](/services/xbox-services/multiplayer/chat/game-chat2/using-game-chat-2)
Describes how to use the C++ API of Game Chat 2 to add voice and text communication to your game.

[Real-time audio manipulation](/services/xbox-services/multiplayer/chat/game-chat2/real-time-audio-manipulation)
Describes inspecting and effects-processing the chat audio that's captured by Game Chat 2.


## Related topics

- [Chat](/services/xbox-services/multiplayer/chat/gc-chat-toc.md)
- [Overview of audio](/build/console-features/audio/overviews/audio.md)
- [Game Saves overview](/build/core-features/common/game-save/game-saves-overview.md)
- [Overviews](/services/xbox-services/multiplayer/overviews/index.md)
- [XBOX services multiplayer overview](/services/xbox-services/multiplayer/overviews/live-multiplayer-intro.md)