Xbox Insiders get Alexa and Cortana speaker support

Microsoft is finally bringing full-blown Xbox One voice assistant support for Amazon Echo devices and Cortana speakers.

In 2013, the original Xbox One was bundled with the futuristic voice-assisted Kinect camera, which allowed you to control your TV via the console's IR blaster while incorporating voice navigation across the entire OS. The bungled bundling inflated the console's retail price, however, leading Microsoft to eventually drop Kinect from the package, and later, from development altogether.

One of the most frustrating things about the death of Kinect was the loss of voice commands for those who upgraded to an unsupported Xbox One S or Xbox One X and weren't fast enough to snap up the now-discontinued Kinect USB adapter. Thankfully, we're getting some of that functionality back, starting today.

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