Fact · Dictation
Microsoft's accessibility guideline for Xbox describes the text-to-speech chat pattern: a player types what they want to say into a text-entry box, and the text is read aloud to the other players in a synthesized voice.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“The player can enter what they would like to say aloud in chat into a text-entry box. This text is then read aloud to all other players via a synthesized voice.”
Xbox Accessibility Guideline 119: Speech-to-text/text-to-speech chat, Microsoft, Microsoft Learn (Xbox accessibility guidelines), 2026, Overview.
Open the original- What it measures
- The guideline is for game developers building chat for Xbox. It is the design behind the text-to-speech option that players use to speak without using their voice.
- What it does not show
- The guideline is for game developers and does not list console menu paths. It describes text going out as speech, the opposite of voice typing, which turns speech into text in a box.