Microsoft Testing Speech-to-Text Chat in Halo Wars 2

On both Windows 10 PCs and Xbox One.

By Alex Osborn

In an effort to be more inclusive to its gaming audience, Microsoft has launched a new pilot feature for Windows 10 and Xbox One users that converts speech to text and vice versa.

According to the Microsoft Accessibility Blog, the feature, dubbed Game Chat Transcription, will initially be available in Halo Wars 2. The company aims to expand support to other titles sometime in the future.

With Game Chat Transcription, players can convert all spoken communication into text form, which is then displayed in real-time on the screen. Meanwhile, the text-to-speech option takes all typed text and converts it to spoken audio that can then be heard by the other players.

Here is the step-by-step process on how to activate the feature, as detailed by Microsoft:

• Go to Settings > All settings > Ease of Access > Game Chat Transcription.
• To transcribe other players’ voices into text, select Speech-to-text.
• To have your chat text read aloud to other players, select Text-to-speech.
• To choose the voice that other players will hear when your chat text is read aloud, select one of the available voices in the Text-to-speech voice menu.

If you haven't yet picked up Halo Wars 2, you can try out a demo, which is now available on both PC and Xbox One.

Alex Osborn is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter and subscribe to his YouTube channel.

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