We’re using a vast server farm to process voice recognition across all platforms — Kinect, Windows Phone 7, etc. The voice cloud learns and improves automatically from the new samples being sent up by users every second, which means it literally is better tomorrow than it is today. It’s how we’re enabling search on Xbox this fall, so you can say “Bing Batman” and Xbox finds Batman movies, games, etc., for you.

Microsoft adding more voice to Xbox, Windows Phone, and pretty much everything else – GeekWire

Speech technology from Microsoft's Tellme group is quickly becoming a bigger part of the company's products, starting with the upcoming revamps of Xbox Live and Windows Phone. Users will have more opportunities to use voice commands to interact with and control the on-screen experience — listening …