{"id":82392,"date":"2018-09-06T14:12:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T21:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/you-can-now-use-alexa-and-cortana-to-control-your-xbox"},"modified":"2018-09-06T14:12:58","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T21:12:58","slug":"you-can-now-use-alexa-and-cortana-to-control-your-xbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/you-can-now-use-alexa-and-cortana-to-control-your-xbox","title":{"rendered":"You can now use Alexa and Cortana to control your Xbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/you-can-now-use-alexa-and-cortana-to-control-your-xbox.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can now control the Xbox from Alexa and Cortana. Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/news.xbox.com\/en-us\/2018\/09\/06\/xbox-now-connects-with-cortana-and-alexa-enabled-devices\/\">announced<\/a> his morning it\u2019s introducing a new way to interact with Xbox One using voice commands, by way of an Xbox Skill that works with both Alexa and Cortana, across platforms. The skill will allow users to launch games, adjust the volume, start and stop their broadcasts to Mixer, capture screenshots and more.<\/p>\n<p>For example, players will be able to say to their Echo speaker, \u201cAlexa, start Rocket League,\u201d and the console would power on, sign them in, and launch the game.<\/p>\n<p>To use the new feature with Alexa, players will first have to sign in with their Amazon account then<a href=\"https:\/\/alexa.amazon.com\/spa\/index.html#skills\/dp\/B07H25BSCN\"> link their Microsoft account to the skill.<\/a> With Cortana, users will instead have to first sign into the Xbox they want to control, then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/cortana\/skills\/all\/XboxBeta\">sign in with their Microsoft account<\/a> to link the skill on their Windows 10 PC.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/09\/06\/you-can-now-use-alexa-and-cortana-to-control-your-xbox\/\">https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/09\/06\/you-can-now-use-alexa-and-...your-xbox\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can now control the Xbox from Alexa and Cortana. Microsoft announced his morning it\u2019s introducing a new way to interact with Xbox One using voice commands, by way of an Xbox Skill that works with both Alexa and Cortana, across platforms. The skill will allow users to launch games, adjust the volume, start and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}