Major Nelson took to his blog today to explain some of the details of the Xbox One's forthcoming update.

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Highlights of the update for early access members include "a new sound mixer for snapped apps, chat volume controls when using Kinect," and the option to help Microsoft improve speech recognition."If you want to help us in our efforts to make voice and speech improvements for Kinect even better, you can opt-in to a speech data collection," Major Nelson stated. "The more voice samples we have to input into our algorithms, the better and more responsive Xbox One can be to our fans."The new Xbox One sound mixer will allow players to control the volume levels of two apps when using Snap, meaning gamers get to which app is louder. "In this same section, you’ll also be able to control the volume levels when you’re using Kinect for chat," Nelson said. Xbox One owners will also be able to take the system updates whenever they want.People in the early access program will be the first to get the updates as they're rolled out, and the Xbox team will take their feedback before releasing the update to all Xbox One owners later this month.

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