Microsoft today announced a new feature available to all game developers for Xbox One: this is the reading (text-to-speech) and transcription (speech-to-text) chat within games, that contribut à to further reduce barriers between players.

These two features, which will arrive today with an update on Halo Wars 2 will allow users with hearing impairments to have a real-time transcript of the words of the other players, while those who have trouble reading the text chat, you'll have them read from the console, which may use different voices.

These functions will be enabled from the console accessibility settings, but will be implemented individually by individual games: Microsoft promises that more titles will benefit.