Why do I need a kinect for voice commands?

[Rainbird]

Ajescent said:

kitler53 said:
of course you need kinect, lip tracking is integral being able to interpret voice commands ...

pseye

singstar

Rockband all disagree with you on that.

Read his comment again, then slap yourself for taking it seriously.

@ OP

Kinect does hardware decoding as far as I'm aware. There's some special hardware in there at least, which makes it much easier for developers to use voice commands. And that's why they use Kinect for it, and not just any old microphone.