Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant Are Coming To Xbox One (windowscentral.com)

According to Windows Central, the Xbox One will soon support Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, which should provide a decent alternative to Kinect for controlling your console via voice commands. Microsoft stopped manufacturing the Kinect in October of last year. From the report: This picture comes to us from a reliable source who is familiar with Amazon and Microsoft's efforts to link Alexa and Cortana. In upcoming Xbox One builds, the Kinect & Devices menu should have a new "Digital Assistants" section, which lets you enable Alexa, Google Assistant, and Cortana, for use on your Xbox One. It then directs you to install the Xbox skills app for those respective platforms to get connected. The full range of features for those assistants remains unknown, but it could bring back many of the voice-assisted features abandoned Kinect users are yearning for.

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Spyware

[stroxor]

With the constant nagging. This should be demoed at White House.

Do people actually want

[cdsparrow]

All these voice command devices? I mean, people buy it, but after the first day of playing with it, do they actually use it?

Re:Do people actually want

[olsmeister]

I find it more of a pain to remember what can and can't be done with voice commands, and how to ask, than it is just to manually do whatever I want to do.

Re:Do people actually want

[PolygamousRanchKid]

I mean, people buy it, but after the first day of playing with it, do they actually use it?

It doesn't matter if the people who bought it use it.

The FBI/CIA/NSA will use it to spy on the people who bought it.

Re:Do people actually want

[Gojira Shipi-Taro]

Tighten up that tin foil, you paranoid maniac. And take your fucking pills.

Re:Do people actually want

[h33t l4x0r]

*giggle* - but yeah, they really are listening in.

Re:Do people actually want

[AdeelYounas]

I had the same question and there is another article on Xbox having Alexa and Google assistant and their use that do not answer this question

Re:Do people actually want

[ndnet]

In my house, yes. We're actually up to a number of Google Homes in my home.

• Direct control of Philips Hue lights and Wemo/TPLink Kasa outlets is surprisingly handy.
• Nest thermostat control is nice.
• Streaming music from Google Play Music on demand is pretty nice.
• The alarm/timer functions are nice when cooking.
• My wife (a SW tester) asks it the weather in the morning so she knows whether or not to take a jacket.
• Adding things to the shopping list is easy.

I'm also running Home Assistant (https://www.home-assistant.io/) to try to beef it up. Some of the projects I'd like to tackle:

• When the washer or dryer finish, announce it in rooms that have lights on.
• Announce package deliveries via the email notifications (HA has UPS and Fedex hooks that work, but the USPS is only web-scraping, and apparently they DO ban...)

The EVIL!!!

[Narcocide]

It's spreading!!

Ads meet PRISM

[AHuxley]

with a mic and games.
A full range of collect it all.

Re:Alexa, please find Melania

[Anonymous Coward]

My doctor has been quite concerned with my sodium levels for the last year.

Yeah, like you have health insurance. Don't you mean your Chinese mail order fentanyl supplier?

Bone

[dohzer]

Is that the same thing as the xbone?

As if it didn't surveil you enough already..

[Rick Schumann]

More surveillance.