Cortana -Now Your Word Assistant: Tips and Tricks to Make the Most of It

Cortana is your digital assistant who can answer your questions and provide information about things you may be interested in. Here are some of the things you can do with Cortana in the latest version of Windows 10 in your market.

The fascinating thing about interacting with Cortana was how emotive she can actually be, while the Cortana symbol is just a simple circle the UX folks at Microsoft have worked pretty hard to ensure that it can actually connect the things it is saying, doing or waiting for, to animation on the screen. Working remotely always reminds me how important things like eye contact can be when having simple conversations, I tend to miss important cues in the voice of people I interact with. While your device obviously does not have eyes there are many ways to still show that something is actively and attentively listening to your every word.

Cortana -Now Your Word Assistant

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Cortana is a digital assistant bundled with Windows 10. You can ask Cortana to look up information using your speech. If you are running Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, Cortana comes with a "Pick up where I left off" feature. When enabled, it allows some of the apps you were running during the previous session to be restored automatically. When you switch between computers, Cortana can show quick links in the Action Center in order to help you reopen web sites and online documents that you were working on previously. If you find no use for this feature, or if you are annoyed by apps that relaunch automatically, you can disable it.

As you can see, digital assistants can take care of a lot of your daily routines with minimal help. That can be a big help for older adults with arthritis, hand tremors, impaired vision or limited mobility.

In order for a virtual helpmate to run your life, it needs to engage with the providers of all the services you rely on, from your calendar app to your Uber ride. Those providers must either partner with the company operating the assistant or design their app to integrate with the assistant. So Spotify will stream music upon request via Alexa, and Honeywell's smart-home thermostat, via Assistant, will bump up the temperature 15 minutes before Grandma's expected arrival.

The first iPhone was released just over a decade ago, sending shockwaves across the entire mobile industry. Personal computing was brought to your palm, and the possibilities of technological innovation seemed endless. The momentum first gathered in 2007 has not stopped since: mobile has changed the way we view the world and continues to disrupt traditional business models. Most recently as part of the mobile package, we have seen an explosion in AI advances integrated with virtual assistants.

In 2007, we found ourselves with the entirety of the worlds knowledge indexed into a format that could be easily scanned and navigated from a machine that you held in your hand. Just four years later, Apple unveiled their voice assistant, Siri.

The myriad benefits of voice technology were loudly celebrated: need to set a timer, receive GPS directions, send a text or play your favorite song? Just say the word. The message was clear: voice assistance is the future and the days of the clumsy virtual keyboard are dwindling.

Cortana is the new Microsoft personal assistant who you can program to help you with your daily life. NMU-issued machines pre-installed with Windows 10 will be equipped with Cortana. Learn more about Cortana on Microsoft's Website.

There are two options to the immensely helpful feature. Users could allow apps to activate with a voice keyword only when the system is unlocked. However, a separate option could also add support for voice activation even when the Windows 10 PC is locked and showing the lock screen. Users could then chose which virtual assistant or their respective apps would support voice activation.

Like any good personal assistant the AI would not just transcribe the meeting, but also action appropriate items, such as schedule follow-up meetings or add assigned tasks to your ToDo and Calendar apps.

Cortana is a mobile productivity application that was developed by Microsoft. It is a virtual assistant app that leverages the Bing search engine to help users perform various tasks, such as setting reminders, taking down notes, or answering random queries. It features cross-platform compatibility, letting it work and sync across all of your devices. If you use Microsoft products such as Office or Outlook, you'll be pleased to know that it integrates with these services seamlessly.

Cortana is a virtual assistant that you can interact with and command through your voice. Similar to other apps like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, it is also able to perform different kinds of tasks for you. You can set reminders under various conditions, including time, day, or even location. It can sync notifications between your mobile device and your PC that runs Windows 10 and up. You can even make quick and simple queries directly to it.

Cortana integrates well with other services, and it works best within Microsoft's own ecosystem. The company's extensive suite of productivity tools would be the best example of this. Integration with mobile devices has improved, as well. This is evident in the Microsoft Launcher that has the virtual assistant already embedded into it. There are still a few nagging complaints, though. It still can't be launched with your voice and app control is still limited in options and is inconsistent.

All in all, Cortana is a handy and capable virtual assistant app that you can use together with your smartphone. It has most of the features and capabilities that you expect from such an application, and it does quite well. Best of all, it integrates seamlessly with Microsoft's products and services. It's worth checking out.

I would be happy to do whatever is needed to help voice control dictation become more accurate to my voice and vocabulary patterns, but I've been unable to find clear enough indication of under what circumstances it will learn (I'm aware of "add to vocabulary ", I mean any learning it may be doing beyond that - audio, vocabulary signatures, context. In writing this I'm even starting to wonder whether it actually does try to learn your audio, or usage patterns; by which I mean which words you're likely/unlikely to be using, perhaps in any particular context; maybe it doesn't?).

As an example of this, I don't know whether I should be trying to speak in a certain kind of special accent, in the hope that it would recognise my speech better (as we would actually do for many humans - speaking clearly, adaptive to the listener). It's as if you have an assistant taking dictation, but they're a complete black box and you're totally unable to ask them how they work. I don't feel I have a way to "get to know" this assistant. I wish there was a way to do that.Of course for general speech this isn't really an issue, it works pretty well. The problem arises when you start to talk about technical subjects (which may often actually 'peek in' to "general speech"). One specific frustration is that for some unusual words, the assistant will repeatedly assume you are talking about something else, and there doesn't seem a way to untrain it. For example it often mis-recognises the word "Cortana", when there is no situation ever I would want to use that word, it's not in my vocabulary! This happens because that word is similar to a technical word I want to use (and even with that word added to vocabulary, it still mis-recognises to the word I don't want). So this issue about how it learns does come up if you use it for technical subjects... Voice assistant is an assistant, after all... 2ff7e9595c