Thursday, July 21st 2022
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Discord Voice Chat Comes to Xbox Consoles
Get ready to connect with your Discord friends and communities on Xbox! Discord Voice chat is coming to your Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One consoles. You will be able to chat with anyone on Discord via voice channels or group calls directly from your console making it easy to connect with friends across mobile, Xbox, and PC. The update will start rolling out to Xbox Insiders today and will be available soon for everyone.
Today's update enables a highly requested feature - Discord Voice on Xbox consoles allows you to talk with your friends and community while you play your favorite games. Planning a few rounds of multiplayer action in Halo Infinite with buddies on both console and PC? Exploring new biomes with your friends in Minecraft? See them already playing a game that supports cross-play? Connect to their voice channel and chat as you all play.While you are playing on your console, you will be able to see who is in the call and speaking. You'll also be able to adjust the sound, and switch between Discord Voice and Xbox game chat.
Link your Discord account to your Xbox
To get started, open the guide by pressing the Xbox button on your console, then go to Parties & chats and click Try Discord Voice on Xbox. You'll see an option to scan a QR code. The QR code will take you to the Discord and Xbox apps to connect and set up a two-way link between your Discord account and Xbox. If you've previously linked your Discord account to your Xbox, you will have to re-link. To link your Discord account you must be at least 13 years old and other parental controls may apply.
Once your Discord account is linked to Xbox, you can hop in a channel you'd like to talk in using Discord just as you normally would. On the Discord mobile app, you'll see a new option to Join on Xbox. At this point, you'll need the Xbox app to transfer voice chat from your Discord account to your Xbox. If you have it installed, the Xbox app will launch and let you connect the Discord Voice chat to your Xbox Series X|S or Xbox One console. Discord's safety standards will apply when chatting on Xbox consoles with Discord Voice.
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Today's update enables a highly requested feature - Discord Voice on Xbox consoles allows you to talk with your friends and community while you play your favorite games. Planning a few rounds of multiplayer action in Halo Infinite with buddies on both console and PC? Exploring new biomes with your friends in Minecraft? See them already playing a game that supports cross-play? Connect to their voice channel and chat as you all play.While you are playing on your console, you will be able to see who is in the call and speaking. You'll also be able to adjust the sound, and switch between Discord Voice and Xbox game chat.
Link your Discord account to your Xbox
To get started, open the guide by pressing the Xbox button on your console, then go to Parties & chats and click Try Discord Voice on Xbox. You'll see an option to scan a QR code. The QR code will take you to the Discord and Xbox apps to connect and set up a two-way link between your Discord account and Xbox. If you've previously linked your Discord account to your Xbox, you will have to re-link. To link your Discord account you must be at least 13 years old and other parental controls may apply.
Once your Discord account is linked to Xbox, you can hop in a channel you'd like to talk in using Discord just as you normally would. On the Discord mobile app, you'll see a new option to Join on Xbox. At this point, you'll need the Xbox app to transfer voice chat from your Discord account to your Xbox. If you have it installed, the Xbox app will launch and let you connect the Discord Voice chat to your Xbox Series X|S or Xbox One console. Discord's safety standards will apply when chatting on Xbox consoles with Discord Voice.
32 Comments on Discord Voice Chat Comes to Xbox Consoles
Discord is a chatroom (AOL?), small file server, message board, and voicechat all rolled into one. No messing with IPs and passwords unless you're an admin or have permissions. Its perfect for creating complete gaming communities. Mumble or Teamspeak cant compare (aka dinosaurs).
Certainly not suitable for a corporate network.
Teaching someone who's never used it before is always a nightmare, as it's just not intuitive at all.
Hell i saw a comment yesterday on social media about how "Discord replaced useless web forums" and I still can't wrap my head around that one
Although I wonder if it could be used within such a network, without internet access.It cant it depends on its servers for voice.When i play L4D2 on steam and some random dude add me and i happen to accept them, they always ask me to install or use that crap in order to use "voice chat". Like seriously? what about the In-Game Voice Chat or Steam Group? like... WHY you need a third software when Steam and pretty much every game already have them?
I tried it once back in 2019, i couldn't set my mic properly and they couldn't hear me, but they could hear me in Game in game voice chat. Also, they were posting a ton of super nasty Trans, Scat and some sort of animated kiddy Pr0n. So i got fed up dealing with that crap and never went back. I don't care if their mommas and their dog use it. And i still don't get why a lot of devs are shutting down their own forums in favor or this redundant crap. The whole point of a forum was to help other people by reading your 5-10 year old comment with a fix for such issue, but on this nasty crap you need to scroll, scroll and scroll for like 20 minutes in order to find the frigging file for fix. God i hate it. WHY are people flocking in mases to Discord? WHY?
I still don't get why there is no competitor yet to this shit, it uses a lot of bandwidth for nothing.
Teamspeak required a server, with port forwards. Either you used a public one and dealt with the general public (even the TPU teamspeak proved problematic for me with this, as we always had randoms interrupting gaming) or you needed someone you knew with an always on PC and reliable internet connection, who also knew how port forwards worked
Discord came along working for 'everyone' and working well multi platform (work buddies would do group skype calls on their phones prior to discord for their PS3/4 gaming sessions. madness i say)
And the final nail was that discord partially copied what twitch and other social media platforms do, with 'content creators' being able to run their servers with better interaction with the common users.
You couldnt have a Teamspeak server with Shroud and 500 randoms, but you can on discord - since the platform was setup to allow channel creators to set it so people can listen and view without being able to talk back.
Throw in the (admittedly minor) paid features of the platform to allow content creators to profit on discord, and there was financial motivation to encourage users to get into something that merged voice chat, live streaming, and a web forum in one location.
And then I guess kids grew up with it and it's UI and layout is so clunky and weird to everything that came before it, they developed this culture that you're an idiot if you don't understand it - so they feel like idiots when they go anywhere else and never leave.
I use discord daily, because it's reliable and we can choose voice servers located in-between all our users instead of at one of our houses - the paid and content creator aspects of it are still foreign to me. I'm like the old fart who uses facebook messenger by SMS to some kids these days.
Yeah, I forgot to read the news on that one too.
Mumble is OSS, so of course it's self-hostable. You could run it on a Raspberry Pi if you wanted.