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Oh hey everyone welcome to another episode of ask the experts where myself Jeff Bakalar from cnet Peter Brown from GameSpot he'll talk eventually just not right now we answer your next generation console questions today Peter all right answer me this Ben wants to know all about connect and will it work with the voice commands in a noisy or crowded room so I'm sure you've had a crowded room where your connect lies won't work okay now talk oh okay yeah we've done a lot of testing around the office actually where we have a lot of different editors talking to each other share talking of air connects and it's not that reliable when there's other chatter going on right i mean you have a hard enough time just in a quiet room i'm gonna connect is still really picky if you have other people making any kind of noise yeah it's totally gonna disrupt the you know the signal that it's looking for from your voice that little waveform that you know audio mix right talking to connect as I talking to a like a senior citizen there like maybe like a grandmother like I have a 92 year old graham with a real old person thinks I contact with me and it's like you know we connect on a certain level but it's just in one ear and out the other and I feel like that's what kind of what happens with connect it hears you doesn't always understand you yeah and that's super frustrating when I had my xbox during the review process out of the first 100 times I tried to get xbox to turn on with just the praise xbox on yeah after 100 tries it only works 68 times on the first try interesting which that's not very good that's like a d-plus you know both playstation 4 and the Xbox one will play games but Microsoft's big selling point without extra hundred dollars is this notion of no but it's going to change entertainment so it change the way you interact with things and when it doesn't work it's certainly disappointing and I'm I'm kind of sick of people giving it a pass people saying you know it doesn't really work but when it does it's like it's from the future that is true but there's else would that be okay that would not be okay like this car is awesome that starts so that sort of success rate in my opinion is really not acceptable yeah surprisingly enough to ps4 voice recognition stuff might even work a little better I found that it did yeah yeah there are fewer commands by far I think there are three dozen commands for the xbox one there's a lot for playstation 4 there are maybe one dozen and i found that i'm able to speak to it in a really natural tone and pace sure and it responds every time it's pretty simple it's say you know like go home or load this game right there seems to be a lot of you know sort of code that you have to play with when you're when you're talking to xbox oh yeah PlayStation it seems a little more seamless and intuitive and to me that's what I want that's the experience I want when I'm talking to a game console yeah there's certainly a lot to cover both the Kinect and the PlayStation camera right have their ups and downs a short you know the pros and cons but one really important thing to consider is how much space you have in your room and Jesse a gamespot reader wants to know how much feed do you need for these cameras to work right so that's a great question because I don't know how it is here in San Francisco but in New York you have you really know your kitchen your living oh it's no better yeah all right my bathroom is in my living room oh that's cool that's convenient oh okay gross all right so check it out I I have about five feet from my connect and that's kind of for me I think the sweet spot I've gotten it to work real close up just I've been messing around with in see how close it would actually work they both have super wide angle lenses right and there's no mechanical movement within those devices so they do a really good job at sort of zooming in from that frame that they are looking at sure so even if you're sort of all the way to one side of it both of them will sort of seek you out and zoom in or do what they have to do especially in skype on the xbox one shares one of the big features a actually attracts people around the room it'll resize the frame to fit whoever is there right the PlayStation camera doesn't have that many applications out for it yet right there's playroom and then there's the twitch streaming but that's basically it right you're really not getting I mean and then there's like the the DVR stuff which you'll you know you can do like the commentary stuff for but that's only for Xbox one right not for PlayStation 4 right so Jeff what do you think is voice recognition and face recognition is at the future of entertainment the living room no I totally sucks man hey it really does suck it doesn't work well enough and when it does it's good but be that guy don't be that guy it doesn't work well enough to make it the exclusive way to control all of your stuff until that day comes I stay away from it right enough yeah okay well that's going to do it for us on this episode of esque the experts Thanks to everyone who sent in those questions they were totally kick ass and we love you for it until next time I'm Jeff Bakalar I'm Peter Brown that's going to do it for this episode we'll see you guys very soon thanks for watching