The voice recognition thing is what I was talking about
here.
You have to read out a few hundred phrases to help improve Kinects voice recognition. I guess the above news story is why.
The few hundred phrases are broken up into 8 stages so you don't do it all at once, if you don't want to.
Some of the phrases were weird. One was something like "I was in bed with Robert, at the time." Most were normal things like "Xbox, achievements." and small things like "cat" and "dog".