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.

Comments

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.

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[AHuxley]

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