Voice control of the Xbox One is now possible: support for Alexa and Cortrana arrives

It was a matter of time before Cortana arrived on the Xbox. The same as the turning of the pages of the calendar would bring closer the possibility of being able to use Alexa from Amazon, now that it is part of the ecosystem of the American company. A wait that is coming to an end, because Xbox One users can now control their machines through verbal commands

Support for interacting with Cortana and Alexa is coming to Xbox One, but before you run to check it out, note that how it usually happens in these cases, will be the members of the Xbox Insider Program the first to access this improvementIn addition, along with this limitation we also find another geographical limit, since for now it is limited only to the United States. But let's see its possibilities.

Voice control

The beneficiaries of this improvement are being in the first place the members of Xbox Insiders in the Alpha, Skip Ahead and Beta ring If you belong to any of these rings, here are the steps to activate compatibility with both personal assistants, each one separately:

Cortana

• We logged in on our Xbox One.
• From a Windows 10 PC we log in to our account to enable Cortana compatibility with the Xbox. This is the link to enter our account.
• "We can now test our first command with ?Hey Cortana, because remember, it&39;s only available in the United States. An example might be Hey Cortana, tell Xbox to open Netflix.?"

Alexa

• We log in to our Xbox One.
• We register on the Amazon website for Alexa here
• We sign in with our Microsoft account to enable Alexa on the Xbox One.
• We follow the instructions on the screen to link the console with Alexa.
• Try a command like this: "Alexa, start Rocket League?

With these steps you can interact via voice commands with your Xbox One. To obtain a complete list of the available commands you can visit the forum enabled on Redditt.

Source | Xbox