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June Xbox Update: Party Chat Accessibility, Xbox App Official Posts, and More
Xbox Wire (Microsoft), 2021
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- What it is
- Microsoft's announcement of the June 2021 Xbox update, which added speech-to-text transcription and text-to-speech to Xbox party chat.
- How much weight it carries
- Primary announcement from Microsoft about its own console, dated 15 June 2021. It describes the feature at launch; later updates may have changed it.
Facts taken from this source
- 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.
“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.” (Party Chat: Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech)