The Xbox One is out in the US tomorrow, and one of its central pillars is that fact that you can talk to it, pretending its HAL 9000. While your Xbox One won’t ultimately try and kill you, it will respond to a number of voice commands, removing that herculean nuisance of actually having to press buttons. Here’s a list of all the things you can ask your Xbox to do.
Click the image, which comes courtesy of GameInformer to make it all large and legible:
The voice commands reportedly work quite well, though they are limited to the list above and even the slightest deviation will have your Xbox unable to recognise what you’re asking.
It’s also worth noting that apparently voice commands are region locked to the region you bought the console from. The system is launching with voice support in the US, UK, Canada, France and Germany so if you are importing, make sure you’re getting one from an English-speaking country or Le Xbox won’t understand you.
Last Updated: November 21, 2013
Captain GUZ
November 21, 2013 at 08:41
Wonder if you could change the xbox bing search to xbox google or will that brick your console?
Hammersteyn
November 21, 2013 at 08:44
I can’t allow you to do that Dave
Captain GUZ
November 21, 2013 at 08:54
“and then there was this red laser dot on my forehead coming from the kinect’
said Dave before he turned into a mindless zombie
Hammersteyn
November 21, 2013 at 08:44
Bwahaha XBOX Bing! Bing is only used with IE and people use IE to either download Firefox or Chrome.
RinceandShrubbery
November 21, 2013 at 09:55
WIN and YES
Hammersteyn
November 21, 2013 at 09:56
My troll is back, oh I missed it so.
ToshZA
November 21, 2013 at 14:23
Sadly, both, and Opera. Web design & coding… Blah. AND I still have to use IE. What a colossal pain in the derrière.
Umar Moe Moe
November 21, 2013 at 08:44
Damn that toasted cheese looks fine as hell. Gad Dayum DAT bread!..
“Xbox Watch…..” – Default command and always active.
“Xbox Go home” is my Favs. I mean, wouldn’t you like to tell Xbox to go home…..and be a family man!! YEEEEEEEEEEAH
http://www.gamesprays.com/files/resource_media/preview/guile-go-home-and-be-a-family-man-5751_preview.png
Hammersteyn
November 21, 2013 at 08:45
Man I am lus for a toasted cheese sandwich and some SF2.
Umar Moe Moe
November 21, 2013 at 08:48
LOOL DUUUUDE, Toasted cheese + Street Fight 2 Turbo with a nice mug of good coffee…..I could go for that right now
TiMsTeR1033
November 21, 2013 at 09:02
That would be great! Got the perfect weather for it too! Cloudy, rainy misty! = gaming weather! I hate work…
Umar Moe Moe
November 21, 2013 at 09:03
Man cloudy weather is the best to snuggle and play
TiMsTeR1033
November 21, 2013 at 09:14
haha two kinds of play!
ElimiNathan
November 21, 2013 at 09:13
In coding terms you just said cloudy,rainy misty weather is NOT good gaming weather 😛
Umar Moe Moe
November 21, 2013 at 09:15
ROFLOL ….. You are a such a nerd ……
ElimiNathan
November 21, 2013 at 09:16
Indeed
HvR
November 21, 2013 at 09:19
C FTW
ElimiNathan
November 21, 2013 at 09:21
Meh, Java thanks
Umar Moe Moe
November 21, 2013 at 09:26
Revealing your age….Not even C++ but…C …. lol
HvR
November 21, 2013 at 09:31
OO is for panty wankers who can not handle a few double pointers.
Umar Moe Moe
November 21, 2013 at 09:32
LOOOL OO revolutionized programming and collaboration. Ain’t nobody got time for pointers
HvR
November 21, 2013 at 09:39
Doesn’t change the fact that real men use C and assembly …. and Python if the boss read an article about the advantages of Python.
Umar Moe Moe
November 21, 2013 at 09:43
hehe, Real men do 🙂 Depends on what you doing really. Corporate development , You can’t really survive with C. If you’re doing more Hardware and low level programming then you can use that. And it is obviously the better language, but it all depends on what you’re coding
HvR
November 21, 2013 at 09:47
I know, just having some fun. I mostly do a lot of low level system development and embedded device development..
Umar Moe Moe
November 21, 2013 at 09:48
🙂 I know , no harm…but man would love to do that, sounds so much fun. Did Computer Science, so High level programming is a bore sometimes
oVg
November 21, 2013 at 08:54
Im off to the canteen…
Umar Moe Moe
November 21, 2013 at 08:55
DON’T YOU DARE EAT A TOASTED CHEESE SANDWICH ALONE!! ELSE I WILL ALL CAPS YOU TO DEATH!!
Captain GUZ
November 21, 2013 at 08:57
Can he eat a bovril and cheese sandwich instead? They yummy, just had one
Umar Moe Moe
November 21, 2013 at 09:01
🙁 🙁 🙁
oVg
November 21, 2013 at 09:05
MMMmmmmmmm
Umar Moe Moe
November 21, 2013 at 09:12
Van damn you….
RinceandShrubbery
November 21, 2013 at 09:58
Nah, he’s going to have… @disqus_CmSOeB7F9d:disqus
Alien Emperor Trevor
November 21, 2013 at 10:47
Stop showing that abomination damn it. And the cat.
oVg
November 21, 2013 at 10:48
FAIL
iAmWeasel
November 21, 2013 at 08:46
From what I’ve seen from live streams, this voice commands thing is way to patchy for this to be taken seriously.
Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew
November 21, 2013 at 08:47
Hold on? But I thought they were going for natural speaking and now there’s a limited amount of commands that have to be said just right? Well that kinda sucks doesn’t it?
Rock789
November 21, 2013 at 08:52
Let’s hope no-one unlocks the secret “Xbox – initiate global apocalypse” command I was secretly told about… Oh, wait… O_O
Captain GUZ
November 21, 2013 at 08:55
You need to get all the achievements first to unlock it
Alien Emperor Trevor
November 21, 2013 at 09:09
You mean, “Xbox on?”
RinceandShrubbery
November 21, 2013 at 09:59
Haha!
TiMsTeR1033
November 21, 2013 at 08:59
Pretty Impressive, I thought Kinect was made to get Americans off their asses, with those commands seems to be doing the complete opposite.
Rikus
November 21, 2013 at 09:42
That made me lol
Alien Emperor Trevor
November 21, 2013 at 09:06
region-locked voice commands. *speechless*
GalacticLordCaptainAwesomeness
November 21, 2013 at 09:12
You will have to download the “Frikkie from Benoni” plug in to get it to understands whats you is sayings… wiffout it, it karent work
Captain GUZ
November 21, 2013 at 09:14
Dis thing is sommer kak
Exalted Overlord Geoffrey Tim
November 21, 2013 at 09:10
“Xbox show my stuff” doesn’t do what I’d expect it to.
Alien Emperor Trevor
November 21, 2013 at 09:17
That’s because you said “junk” & not “stuff.”
Captain GUZ
November 21, 2013 at 09:19
*xbox uploads your whole private collection of photos to facebook,twitter and instagram
oVg
November 21, 2013 at 09:43
Just think of all the ION photo research that goes on 😛
HvR
November 21, 2013 at 09:17
If there is a blonde Playmate jumping out of cake after “Xbox start a party” I’m going to very disappointed.
Milesh Bhana
November 21, 2013 at 09:25
xbox record that!
I can see that coming in handy (well, until the novelty wears off)
Unavengedavo(aka. MadeYouLook)
November 21, 2013 at 09:29
So the xbox can jump from activity to activity?…
RinceandShrubbery
November 21, 2013 at 10:10
DOWN VOTE FOR YOU!
Unavengedavo(aka. MadeYouLook)
November 21, 2013 at 10:14
Lol, thank you 🙂
Alien Emperor Trevor
November 21, 2013 at 09:36
Hmmm. In keeping with yesterday’s PS4 review, does the header image mean that the Xbox is a snackwich machine?
FoxOneZA
November 21, 2013 at 09:39
Xbox shoot lasers!
oVg
November 21, 2013 at 09:41
XBOX!! I want 1080p!!!
Unable to comply, building in progress.
Admiral Chief Duke
November 21, 2013 at 10:42
😉
That Tall Twit
November 21, 2013 at 11:31
LOL!
Ultimo_Cleric N7
November 21, 2013 at 09:54
Xbox, make me a sandwich? I didnt realise your girlfriend’s name was X Box.
Too far?
Gr8_Balls_o_Fire
November 21, 2013 at 09:55
“Stop Listening” – Triggers secret listening and connects directly to NSA
HvR
November 21, 2013 at 10:33
Francis show us the best way to use the xbox record voice command.