Xbox One: 10 Big Changes That Would Actually Make It Worth Buying
6. Longer Kinect Listening Time
The Xbox One Kinect works by perking up when you say its name, then turning off its ears after 15 seconds or so. Unfortunately given its finicky nature, youll say a command, it wont hear you, youll say the command again and about halfway through the second try it will stop listening, turning the previously green (and speakable) menu items back to white. Requiring you to - yet again - say the command, but with "Xbox" in front of it. Whats strange is that the Kinect *has* a microphone, and it surely knows noises are being made and a menu is loaded. To stop listening mid-command seems like an oversight that could be corrected via some audio recognition voodoo and an adjustable slider to denote how long it listens before stopping.
