Fact · Dictation
Microsoft's documented Xbox speech-to-text feature transcribes what people say in a party chat into an on-screen overlay; it was added in the June 2021 update.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“By enabling speech-to-text transcription, gamers can have all words spoken by the people in a party converted into text that’s displayed in an adjustable overlay on top of gameplay.”
June Xbox Update: Party Chat Accessibility, Xbox App Official Posts, and More, Xbox Wire (Microsoft), 2021, Party Chat: Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech.
Open the original- What it measures
- Xbox Wire, 15 June 2021. The feature is an accessibility aid for players who are deaf or hard of hearing, and the companion text-to-speech reads typed chat aloud.
- What it does not show
- This is transcription of other people's speech, not dictation into a text box. Microsoft's announcement does not describe a dictation key on the console keyboard.