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Gradually, the console world is opening up to crossplay, with gamers from different platforms joining together to go hunting in games like Minecraft Dungeons, Land of Decay 2, Ocean of Thieves, and many more.

This shiny new world of crossplay, however, has presented new challenges. Dorsum in the mean solar day if everyone was on Xbox, jumping onto party chat for voice comms was a relatively straightforward affair. These days, people are using Discord for voice comms about frequently in the gaming community, but Xbox doesn't yet have a native official app for Discord on its platform. Certain, ane of you could just jump onto Discord via your phone, but that might interfere with your power to, y'know, hear your game if information technology isn't coming through the same output. Thankfully, there is an easier style to go nearly it, at least if 1 of you is playing on Windows 10 or Windows 11. And don't worry, y'all don't need Xbox Game Pass or Xbox Live Golden or anything like that.

How to cross-platform voice chat between Xbox and PC

If one of you is on Xbox, and one of you is on a Windows 10 or 11 PC, you can join the same Xbox Live party relatively easily, although if the person on Windows PC hasn't notwithstanding signed upward for Xbox Live, they'll accept to become and take hold of a complimentary business relationship over hither first.

Add a friend on an Xbox One, or Xbox Series 10|S panel

The first pace is to add each other every bit a friend on Xbox Alive. If you know how to do this, y'all tin can skip to the side by side section.

On Xbox, navigate to the guide past hitting the nexus (Xbox) push on your controller.

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Navigate to the People section, and select Find someone using the A push button on your controller.

Search for your friend's Gamertag; they will take created information technology while signing up for an Xbox Live account.
Once they pop upwardly from the search, select Add friend.

Now, the PC friend should get a notification on Windows 10 or Windows xi that they were added. Next, the PC user tin add an Xbox Live friend in a couple of ways. You tin can either use the Windows 10/11 built-in Xbox app, or the Xbox Game Bar found on Windows key + G. The quickest way is to simply apply the Xbox Game Bar, and here's how that works.

Add an Xbox Live friend on a Windows 10/11 PC

Printing Windows key + Thousand to open the Xbox Game Bar.
On the right should exist the "Xbox Social" console. Blazon your friend's Gamertag into the search box "Find Friends."

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Correct-click on their name, and select Add friend.

Invite your friend to an Xbox political party

Next stride is to offset a voice comms telephone call, otherwise known as an Xbox Live party. Only one of you needs to first the party, and so invite the other friends to join. The person who creates the party is the party owner and can configure access rights for the group.

Start an Xbox Live party on Xbox 1 or Xbox Series X|Due south

Open the Xbox guide again using the Xbox button on your controller.
Navigate to People and select Friends online.
Find the friend y'all desire to invite, and select their profile.

Select Invite to political party.

Start an Xbox Live political party on Windows 10/11 PC

Open the Xbox Game Bar by pressing Windows key + Thousand.
Find your friend in the right-hand social panel.

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Right-click on them and select party then invite to party.

Configuring audio on PC

Audio is pretty uncomplicated on Xbox, and the panel will detect what mic y'all want to use automatically (typically since you lot only have 1 continued), simply if y'all're using a PC or especially a laptop, Windows won't always detect the device you want to employ directly off the bat. So equally an annex, hither's where yous control sound settings easily for an Xbox political party.

Printing Windows cardinal + G to open the Xbox Game Bar.
On the left console, by default, is the Audio panel.
Click on the phonation tab equally shown below. Here, you can select where your game sound outputs, your voice comms output, and your microphone inputs.

Party on, dudes

If any of these instructions are unclear, hit the comments and I'll try to respond your questions and issue some updates to this commodity. Naturally this won't help if your friends are gaming on a PlayStation or Nintendo Switch, sadly, simply between Xbox and modern Windows platforms, it's a pretty handy tool. Sometimes I utilize it to chat with people who are gaming while I'm at work too, similar right now, as I write this article. How meta.

Jez Corden is a Senior Editor for Windows Central, focusing primarily on all things Xbox and gaming. Jez is known for breaking exclusive news and analysis as relates to the Microsoft ecosystem while being powered by caffeine. Follow on Twitter @JezCorden and listen to his Xbox Two podcast, all about, you guessed it, Xbox!