Why Cant We Use Headset For Voice Controls???

when will people understand that voice controls are not as simple as speaking and boom its done... headsets turn electronic signal into sound by pulsing a magnet that vibrates a skin...

now to make that work as controls... you need something to process how that skin in vibrating and what it means... translate that electronic vibration into a command.. issue that command to the main processor of the XB1 and have the XB1 execute those commands...

to do this.. you will need the kinect guts (which does all of this PLUS more) inside the console itself.. making it bigger in size (god forbid it gets bigger) OR have a headset the size of a 1970s radio host... that will get so hot from processing it will
burn your 15 year old sideburns off

your choice... buy a dam kinect or be bald with a strained neck with a 15 pound headset

@bstn617

there is a reason why voice commands cant be done through the headset and that is that all the commands are processed in the kinect sensor itself not on the console, voice commands cant be processed through the headset, it just does not have the capability
to do it, unless they were to create a new headset with features of the kinect built into it, but they would probably charge upwards of £90 for something like that and personally i dont see that happening myself, if people so badly want to use features that
are only available with the kinect version of the console they should get that version end of, you cant have it both ways, IMO the xbox one is a far better machine with kinect than it is without.

Those reasons why you don't want it sound like since you paid for it you don't want others who did not pay for it to have the feature to me.

There is no reason why the X1 could not do voice commands through the headset and if you can do it through the headset that means that they could also just release a $20 usb microphone array that sits on top of the console that allows people to use voice
commands without a headset too.

I think it will happen in a update in the future. But personally I will still not use it.

I want to be able to play Kinect Sports Rivals with just the controller, or video chat using the Skype app on my console without a Kinect.... I'm sure you can do it. With video chat, just plug in your camcorder or a webcam into one of the USB ports on the
console. Wait... that won't work. I want the Features you get with Kinect, but to be able to get them without having a Kinect. Just kidding. If you want the Features that badly, just get the Kinect. It's well worth the investment. I want Voice Commands so
that I can spell out every letter of a code I want to redeem off Xbox Live without having to input it on the onscreen keyboard (to redeem codes). I would like to plug in my barcode scanner so that I can use it to scan QR codes something which Kinect does without
typing out the is it 25 digit code. Dude, just get a Kinect. Get it, and you can have these privileges.

And please do not give me this my phone does it... all your phone does it understand what you say and types it out as text