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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 mrclisdue on Tuesday March 04 2014, @05:13PM

    by mrclisdue (680) on Tuesday March 04 2014, @05:13PM (#10966)

    Re:All about the timing (Score:1, Flamebait)
    by dotdotdot (858)

    Wow, you sure spared no vile words with your vicious, insult-infested attack on, erm:

    Windows Phone has always had pretty good voice integration for calling people, getting directions, searching with Bing, and text-to-speech/speech-to-text for messaging. This is just a natural evolution with a few more features and a catchy name.

    No, it's not groundbreaking, but neither is it just me-too.

    ...erm, I'm not sure.

    I'm thinking that if I take the first letter of each word, give it the old rot-13, and translate to Sanskrit, you've just called a gay black autistic woman a handmaid.

    Now, knock it off, ya hear?

  • (Score: 2) by dotdotdot on Tuesday March 04 2014, @05:27PM

    by dotdotdot (858) on Tuesday March 04 2014, @05:27PM (#10975)

    Yeah, I don't see the reason for the downmod either. Maybe I didn't express enough Microsoft hatred. This is starting to feel more and more like the old site.