More ways to communicate and more accessibility
Microsoft will soon introduce a new feature to Xbox One and Windows 10 PCs called Game Chat Transcription.
When enabled, the feature will work in two ways: players will be able to turn their chats from speech to text so that they can read their in-game chats on their screen in real-time, or they’ll be able to choose text to speech which will result in their typed text being spoken aloud to other players in the game.
The feature is intended to make multiplayer games more accessible experiences by giving players even more ways to communicate during games which is a wonderful thing to see.
However, outside of accessibility it’s also useful for players who want to participate in chat but have no desire to actually listen to it. We imagine the number of players that fall into that category is fairly high.
