Bill Gates' Microsoft unveiled a new world in Los Angeles on Monday where couch potatoes with an Xbox gaming-entertainment console can sit back on the couch, put their feet up and change live TV channels, search the internet, choose movies or music, play games, go on YouTube, interact in live sporting telecasts and many other pursuits without a remote control.
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All you need is a voice.
To watch live TV, just utter the words "Xbox live TV".
An Aussie accent will be OK to deliver the voice commands because the brainiacs at Microsoft are working hard to ensure Aussie ockers are understood by the voice recognition technology as easily as a New Yorker in the Bronx or a Mandarin-speaking resident of Beijing.
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