Discord voice chat is coming to Xbox - The Verge

Discord and Microsoft are bringing Discord voice chat to Xbox consoles. You’ll be able to connect to Discord calls using the Xbox and Discord mobile apps to transfer them to an Xbox console.

Discord and Microsoft are bringing Discord voice calls to the Xbox. The feature, available now to Xbox Insiders and coming soon to the rest of us, will allow users to connect to Discord voice chats from their Xbox, facilitating all kinds of cross-platform play shenanigans.

The process of connecting your Xbox and Discord accounts and starting up a voice chat is pretty involved. First, you have to download the Xbox mobile app, as you’ll use your phone to transfer Discord calls to an Xbox. Then, you have to connect your Xbox account to your Discord one. If you’ve connected them in the past, the instructions state that you’ll need to do so again to accept the new voice permissions.

Once that’s done, whenever you want to talk with your Discord homies on Xbox, you can start a call on Discord, hit the “transfer to Xbox” button, choose an Xbox console on the Xbox mobile app, and you’re done. You’ll also be able to initiate a transfer from Discord on desktop or the web, and a QR code will be displayed that opens the Xbox mobile app.

The Discord and Xbox linking process.

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Xbox users will even see a “Try Discord voice on Xbox” prompt inside the “parties and chats” section of the Xbox dashboard. This will include a QR code for the Discord and Xbox mobile apps to connect and set up the two-way link between a Discord account and an Xbox.

Discord voice chat on Xbox works by essentially transferring voice chats from Discord to an Xbox, and it’s supported on both Xbox One and Xbox Series S / X consoles. That means you can’t directly join Discord calls from an Xbox, and there’s no dedicated Discord app on the console. Instead, you always use the mobile app to sling calls across, and they integrate into an Xbox Party-like interface.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/20/23270362/discord-xbox-voice-chats-microsoft

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