Discord and Microsoft introduced Discord voice chat final week, making it obtainable initially to invite-only Alpha and Alpha Skip-Ahead Xbox testers. The new characteristic is now available to Xbox Insiders within the Beta ring, which doesn’t require an invitation.

Microsoft is releasing a brand new Xbox dashboard replace for beta testers at 5PM ET / 2PM PT at this time that may embrace Discord voice integration. The voice chat works by first linking Xbox and Discord accounts after which connecting to a Discord voice name utilizing the cellular app and transferring the decision to an Xbox console utilizing the Xbox cellular app.

The course of is just a little concerned, however as soon as the preliminary setup is full, it’s comparatively straightforward to hook up with Discord voice calls and switch them to an Xbox console. Because there’s no devoted Discord app on Xbox, it means you gained’t be capable of entry Discord chat as that is only for voice calls.

On the Xbox dashboard itself, Discord calls are neatly built-in into the a part of the Xbox dashboard the place you usually discover the Parties & chats options. In a Discord voice name, you possibly can see all of your Discord mates which might be presently within the name, alter quantity, and disconnect from a name immediately from the Xbox dashboard.

This new Discord voice chat performance will probably be obtainable within the Beta ring for Xbox Insiders at this time, and we’d anticipate to see it progress to the Delta and Omega rings within the coming weeks earlier than being broadly obtainable for all Xbox consoles quickly.