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ethomaz on 02 December 2013

endimion said:

^^this

the only thing I desagree with, at least with the kinect 1 is the cadence of speech.... mine works perfectly even if you say litteraly XBoxhelp instead of XBox help
now that said the result are not optimal that way since a slight variation of word inflection will mess it up... but I do this all the time with my wife to see who can switch to the next episode the fastest on netflix or hulu and it works just fine for the most part.... I litteraly say XBOXnextEpisode... I really need to do a video someday... when you know how that little wonder of technology tic it is just awesome... unless it is playing a deaf ear which it does sometime especially after being idle for a while.... again I'm talking about kinect 1 here but I don't see why kinect 2 wouldn't work the same at least or way better

I don't know but some sites said that right now Kinect One works worst than Kinect 1 for voice commands... it will get better... it didn't use the same tech used in the Kinect 1... it is a new sorfware only for Xbone.

With proper updated I'm sure Kinect One will work better than Kinect 1... even more now that MS have more consumers evidences to adjust the software in the right way.



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kafar on 02 December 2013

ouch, i just hit a wall of words....



endimion on 02 December 2013

I don't know about website and their test condition but so far every friend I know are impressed with the improvement... well I will see for myself in a couple weeks...

but yeah it will improve no doubt... since the Kinect 1 vastly improved since launch especially if you use it regularly and get to know each other :D



Adinnieken on 02 December 2013
ethomaz said:

I don't know but some sites said that right now Kinect One works worst than Kinect 1 for voice commands... it will get better... it didn't use the same tech used in the Kinect 1... it is a new sorfware only for Xbone.

With proper updated I'm sure Kinect One will work better than Kinect 1... even more now that MS have more consumers evidences to adjust the software in the right way.

When an article reports that voice commands only work x% of the time, it generally points to one of the issues I mentioned.

The one I didn't mention, where nothing Kinect-wise works, is if the Kinect is DOA.  There have been some issues of this, but once again nothing works.  Not just voice commands.

The console reboot seems to be the biggest fix of the widest variety of problems people are having.  Most likely this'll get fixed in an update, but right now a hard reset clears it up.



IsawYoshi on 02 December 2013
Adinnieken said:

Finally, make sure you use a normal conversational voice when speaking to your Xbox One.  Consider the Xbox One tempermental, but it does not appreciate you shouting at it.  It's right there in the room.  It can hear you loud and clear (if you calibrate it properly), just talk to it.  I know this sounds funny, but it's true.

Doesn't sound that odd really, it's the same deal with smartphone touchscreens.



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Adinnieken on 02 December 2013
endimion said:


^^this

the only thing I desagree with, at least with the kinect 1 is the cadence of speech.... mine works perfectly even if you say litteraly XBoxhelp instead of XBox help
now that said the result are not optimal that way since a slight variation of word inflection will mess it up... but I do this all the time with my wife to see who can switch to the next episode the fastest on netflix or hulu and it works just fine for the most part.... I litteraly say XBOXnextEpisode... I really need to do a video someday... when you know how that little wonder of technology tic it is just awesome... unless it is playing a deaf ear which it does sometime especially after being idle for a while.... again I'm talking about kinect 1 here but I don't see why kinect 2 wouldn't work the same at least or way better

If the notification is up on the screen that the Xbox is listening, you can just say the command.  Not the prompt first.

So, the first time.  "Xbox: Next Episode", but if the notification is still up, you can say "Next Episode" again or any other command.



Goatseye on 02 December 2013
ethomaz said:

I don't know but some sites said that right now Kinect One works worst than Kinect 1 for voice commands... it will get better... it didn't use the same tech used in the Kinect 1... it is a new sorfware only for Xbone.

With proper updated I'm sure Kinect One will work better than Kinect 1... even more now that MS have more consumers evidences to adjust the software in the right way.

I find hard to believe that YOU believe some the stuff that you post.

Have you ever interacted with Kinect .2?



Adinnieken on 02 December 2013
IsawYoshi said:
Adinnieken said:

Finally, make sure you use a normal conversational voice when speaking to your Xbox One.  Consider the Xbox One tempermental, but it does not appreciate you shouting at it.  It's right there in the room.  It can hear you loud and clear (if you calibrate it properly), just talk to it.  I know this sounds funny, but it's true.

Doesn't sound that odd really, it's the same deal with smartphone touchscreens.

It's human nature to yell when we don't think we're being heard.  Kids do it without learning it.  That's how inherient it is.



ethomaz on 02 December 2013

Goatseye said:

I find hard to believe that YOU believe some the stuff that you post.

Have you ever interacted with Kinect .2?

Yeap... and in fact Kinect One is more flexible with a lot of new commands but the voice recognition needs yet to catch the Kinect 1... just give MS some time... BTW I say something tha you will call me fanboy but the PS4 voice recognition works for few commands (very few... the Kinect One is way better for that) but it works better than the Kinect One right now.

Maybe you guys didn't have issues because your native language is English and you have a good speak but right now the Kinect 1 works better than both Kinect One and PSEye... and for the few voice commands of the PSEye it works better too.

MS just need to calibrate the voice recognition now to make it more opened to all the differente speaker.



IsawYoshi on 02 December 2013
Adinnieken said:
IsawYoshi said:
Adinnieken said:

Finally, make sure you use a normal conversational voice when speaking to your Xbox One.  Consider the Xbox One tempermental, but it does not appreciate you shouting at it.  It's right there in the room.  It can hear you loud and clear (if you calibrate it properly), just talk to it.  I know this sounds funny, but it's true.

Doesn't sound that odd really, it's the same deal with smartphone touchscreens.

It's human nature to yell when we don't think we're being heard.  Kids do it without learning it.  That's how inherient it is.

As I said, the same thing with smartphones. When my dad got his first he had problems because the moment the screen didn't pick up he naturally answered by pressing harder, wich doesn't really work.