Friday, April 18, 2014

Cortana on Windows or Siri on iOS? which is better?


Cortana is the world’s first artificially digital personal assistant that can understand voice commands and questions given to it and responds back. Jen Taylor, the voice actress will provide voice assistance in Cortana. In order to access this search option, user must have a Microsoft account. Microsoft is now probably planning to have Cortana digital assistant on the Xbox device. Cortana is powered by “Bing” and completely replaces the search button on Windows Smart Phone. At present Cortana is designed to understand only 15 regional languages. Undoubtedly, it will be first released in U.S, in next few months as a “Beta”, then in U.K and China till next half of 2014 while the other international markets will be getting it by the year 2015.                                                                                                                                              
It will make life bit easier and the user can take advantage of it. It will be pre installed as a Live Tile with a Windows Phone 8.1 Operating System is powered with Cortana to give an easy search option to users.     characterized Blue circular icon at middle of the Phone. Whenever the user activates, Cortana will just pops up with a voice by saying “What can I help you with?” It uses simple US English slang. Cortana will have direct connections to all Microsoft services.

The users can easily get connected with it just by tapping Cortana Blue circular icon. This is going to be the best personal assistant function in Windows 8.1 Smart Phone. For first time if you are using it, Cortana will start knowing about you like your name, personal short cuts, how to pronounce it, later it will be pro-active and will be helpful throughout the day .



It is designed in such a way that whenever the user asks or type any question, the complete details of that particular question will be answered via Cortana’s Notebook. Users can customize notifications alerts according to their choice. It will notify all types of received E-mails, messages, calls and reminders according to settings done by the user.

It detects and scans the data you care about, looks out for you throughout the day. Users can get answers to questions like today’s weather report, events in my city, nearby hotels, multiplex, traffic information and other search lists. Cortana lists some of the things she can do, such as making notes, reminder, alarm settings, places, and calendar which can also work with Third party Apps that are installed in your phone such as Facebook, Twitter. It can even help you out in making a video call on Skype App. It can also manage your phone when you don’t want to be get disturbed by setting quiet hours where it will notify all incoming, missed calls, reminders and texts silently without any disturbance. So, Cortana will replace Siri in many aspects.

By Trinesh

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