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Xbox One to feature “premium voice quality” for Skype and chat

xbox-one-logoxbox-one-logoCompared to the Xbox 360, the Xbox One voice quality for Skyping and chatting is apparently getting quite a boost according to Microsoft.

To prove this point they’ve put together a little sample, which is embedded below.

Take a listen.

Thanks to integration with Skype?s audio codec, which has a proven track record of high-quality voice through billions of hours of use within Skype, as well as dedicated audio processing (for Xbox One conversations via Skype and multiplayer party chats), Xbox One offers higher quality voice chat with the Xbox One Chat Headset compared to Xbox 360?whether you?re chatting in-game or through party chat with Skype on Xbox One.

But the improvements don?t stop there. The Xbox One Wireless Controller?s new expansion port dramatically expands the data transfer rate between the controller and console. Combined with Skype?s audio codec, this enables crystal-clear digital audio with the Xbox One Chat Headset, both capturing and rendering speech at 24 KHz PCM, which is triple the rendering sample rate and a 50 percent capture rate improvement over Xbox 360 headsets. And, as we shared before, the Xbox One Chat Headset comes with every Xbox One console.

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