Kinect Voice Commands Inoperable

Hey there Zackdogg,

With the Xbox Update in August, we brought more of Windows to Xbox. This has the long term benefit of having apps work on all of your devices, but it did make some changes to how speech works on the Xbox console by moving away from Kinect based voice commands
(which requires purchasing additional hardware) and building speech commands with Cortana.

For our first release using Cortana, we focused on getting some basics working beautifully on Xbox and we will build on that foundation for future releases. This means that while gamers will be able to use Cortana to navigate their Xbox One dashboard like
Home, Achievements and the Game Collection, they won’t be able to use Cortana to navigate within (some) apps. They’ll be able use Cortana to launch the app, and (if the app supports it) use Cortana to play or pause video playback or search for content within
the app, but they won’t be able to issue voice commands specific to that app (for example “Move Next” or “Select Three”).

We are working hard to make this functionality available to our app partners in a future update, so stay tuned for future announcements on our speech journey.

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Mister Mascot

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I was looking for the answer to this problem and this the first time I see an official answer. Well done Microsoft. You made us buy an expensive product so the you change your mind about it and noe you want to "shift away". I don't know how are you making
life easier. Kinect was a peace of art specially with navigation hands free. Cortona on the opposite need to be connect to the cloud to do back a simple command. I bet you that nobody will use Cortona on Xbox nor on PC. Can you tell how does saying " Hey Cortona
.......... Select" will be easier than "Xbox select"!!!!!

Hey there Zackdogg,

With the Xbox Update in August, we brought more of Windows to Xbox. This has the long term benefit of having apps work on all of your devices, but it did make some changes to how speech works on the Xbox console by moving away from Kinect based voice commands
(which requires purchasing additional hardware) and building speech commands with Cortana.

For our first release using Cortana, we focused on getting some basics working beautifully on Xbox and we will build on that foundation for future releases. This means that while gamers will be able to use Cortana to navigate their Xbox One dashboard like
Home, Achievements and the Game Collection, they won’t be able to use Cortana to navigate within (some) apps. They’ll be able use Cortana to launch the app, and (if the app supports it) use Cortana to play or pause video playback or search for content within
the app, but they won’t be able to issue voice commands specific to that app (for example “Move Next” or “Select Three”).

We are working hard to make this functionality available to our app partners in a future update, so stay tuned for future announcements on our speech journey.

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Xbox Forums Staff

Be sure to check out the Xbox Forum Guidelines for the Do's and Don'ts as well as the Xbox
Insider Program Forums for help with Xbox Insider Program troubleshooting. Achievement issues? Check our sticky

HERE for the best info.

Unfortunately at this time I don't think there is a voice command to access this menu - at least none that I've found and none are listed on the Kinect Voice Command sheet. Here's a list of current voice commands:

support.xbox.com/.../voice-commands

Voice commands will only work if you have a kinect or a headset. Cortana has to be turned on first before you use her voice commands, and if you do not have a kinect, then the Xbox voice commands will not be turned on.

The Xbox Kinect can already be "Turned One" by voice. Here is a list of the commands

support.xbox.com/.../voice-commands Hope that helps.