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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