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Microsoft has released a sampling of audio showcasing the difference in quality you can expect between the current Xbox 360 chat functionality and that of the Xbox One. Boasting improvements on both sides of the hardware software divide, the Xbox One will provide significantly superior in-game and multiplayer party chat experiences, as well as online conversations via Skype.

The touted improvements include integration with Skype’s audio codec and dedicated audio processing power to render all those silky smooth tones. Furthermore, the Xbox One Wireless controller features an all new expansion port, bumping the transfer speeds from controller to console. Microsoft tossed out some figures that might make sense to those audiophiles out there, namely the below:

This enables crystal-clear digital audio with the Xbox One Chat Headset, both capturing and rendering speech at 24 KHz PCM, which is triple the rendering sample rate and a 50 percent capture rate improvement over Xbox 360 headsets.

For those of us who need a real-world example, Microsoft’s audio snippets have been provided below. Take a listen.

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The difference is night and day. If this is indicative of what we can expect in the finished product, those garbled shrieks of unintelligible emotion and muffled conversations picked up in the background will be a thing of the past.

Source: Xbox Wire