[deminature]

Xbox One's voice control would be my preferred input mechanism for controlling my entire home - no unlock, no app launch, not even any picking up a device/remote. Microsoft must have plans about this though, because it seems so obvious after getting used to voice control on the console.

[vmarsy]

That's what Cortana is for.

For instance today if you have a Philips hue lights and a windows phone, you pick your phone, screen is off, you press the search button, and says "huestro, set my lights to ..."

Hopefully you'll be able to say that directly from your Xbox one microphone.

But this article is spot on, that's a reason Philips released the pricey "hue tap", a switch that frees you from using a smartphone

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/huetro-for-hue/f...

http://www2.meethue.com/en-us/the-range/hue-tap/

[recursive]

Do you get accurate results with voice control? My success rate with attempted voice commands is something less than 50%. I wouldn't like that to be my primary mechanism for dealing with locks and climate.