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Cortana: Windows Phone 8.1's AI Assistant

posted by LaminatorX on Tuesday March 04 2014, @03:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the At-least-it's-not-GlaDOS dept.

Member AnonTechie guides us to an article at The Verge, "Leak reveals Cortana, Windows Phone 8.1's mashup of Siri and Google Now."

From the article:

Microsoft's upcoming Windows Phone 8.1 update will include Cortana, a personal digital assistant designed to rival Siri and Google Now. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans have revealed to The Verge how Cortana looks and operates, replacing the built-in Bing search functionality on Windows Phone 8.1. While the feature is named after the Halo game series, Cortana will take the form of a circular animated icon instead of a female character. Cortana will animate when it's speaking or thinking, forming a personality not dissimilar to Apple's Siri.

 
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  • (Score: 1) by Woods on Tuesday March 04 2014, @04:05PM

    by Woods (2726) <woods12@gmail.com> on Tuesday March 04 2014, @04:05PM (#10915)

    Yeah, Android was the same way, and so was IOS... And then Apple decided that their voice recognition software should start talking back to you.

    Really instead of a "Personal assistant" or "AI", they made a text to speech app.

    So then Google played along and made their app talk back as well. I remember when Siri was announced and people were showing it off, and I would do the exact same things with my Android phone, but people were less impressed because it did not speak back to me.

    Personally, I find the whole thing uninteresting. All the features were already there, but now instead of reading the results of my query, I listen to the results. And for some reason, that is considered a breakthrough.