Microsoft announces Cortana for Windows Phone
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Oppo
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Did it actually catch "NeoGAF"? be honest
killer rin
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100% Real
lol
was my first thought
ha ha yep
AnathemicOne
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Apparently Jen Taylor's voice will only play if you ask something Halo-related other that that its just a synthesized voice for everything else.
Yes, it's in my notebook and dictionary.
Ol No Bones
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The video they showed announcing her was kinda creepy. She knows the internet. Dum Dum DUM!!
Anyway as a Nokia 1520 owner with a slew of other windows devices I couldn't be happier with the direction they are going.
Anyway as a Nokia 1520 owner with a slew of other windows devices I couldn't be happier with the direction they are going.
Only for Build version. She's recording phonemes and other stuff which will all be added in. Current version is blend of Jen and default female voice.
Ol No Bones
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Ohhhhh Pleaseeeee
strikeselect
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Looks cool but I'm not seeing anything that Cortana does better than Google Now. Another case of MS being late to the party. Wish them the best though, competition is always good. I do love that they used Jen Taylor's voice, massive Halo nerd appeal. 
killer rin
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New video up on the Windows Phone YouTube Channel. Meet Cortana: The New Windows Phone 8.1 Personal Assistant
Rocket Scientist
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Weird, does the voice sound almost exactly like the Google Now voice or is it just me?
Ol No Bones
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Is this app gonna function after its 7th year? Cortana went nuts.
welp
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lastflowers
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are you sure?
"Cortana, find me a picture of a large cat sleeping on a bald man"
RIP monkey. You got too big and they had to send the Jaegers to get you.
Blue Ninja
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We exist together now, two corpses in one grave.
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66 Posts? GAF you're getting slow.
killer rin
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Supposedly they might be bringing Cortana to the Bing app on iOS. Its not confirmed though.
Yes it does. Just checked. Very low memory requirements because cloud or something.
Oppo
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Hehe, ok. It's been out for what, 25 minutes? I didn't expect anyone to start filling it out.
He works for Microsoft. He's probably had it for longer.
I've had it for about a week or two.
terrisus
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By giving people one less reason to go with an Apple product.
If people aren't using it/are using it less due to switching away from the platform as a whole, that would be the "killing" part.
killer rin
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Maybe. Depends on if the region trick works. At least we do know though that they have plans to bring it Outside of the USA once the beta is over/nearing completion
Stop whining. Nobody that doesn't own an Xbox is going to know who Cortana is any more than they know who Siri is. It's just a random name to the average person.
Siri has been out for 2.5 yrs and only came out of beta last year in September. This is more that though: Cortana = Siri+Google Now. Microsoft has actually leapfrogged Apple here.
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dammit, how does one avatar quote again?
Penguins&PolarBears
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I wish someone could have explained this on stage that it will be Jen Taylor's voice, because a lot of people seem confused if it will or not or if it's even possible to use someone's voice.
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eh...
I used siri once or twice on my iphone. it's sort of handy for dialing someone sometimes. I don't really get voice commands. Most people feel the need to yell at the phone.
the annoying thing about siri is I seem to need to use a button to activate it that's pretty much a fail right there. will this be different?
I used siri once or twice on my iphone. it's sort of handy for dialing someone sometimes. I don't really get voice commands. Most people feel the need to yell at the phone.
the annoying thing about siri is I seem to need to use a button to activate it that's pretty much a fail right there. will this be different?
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Oppo
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The thing that I find nice about voice commands is when you can actually use them to chain together a complex string of instructions or variables, that would normally require a bunch of tapping or navigating.
For instance I will often use Siri to split a bill and figure out the tip. You can do that way faster with something like Siri or Cortana than you can manually.
And of course just plain speech-to-text input is handy.
On the other hand, I find that voice commands have an interesting side effect, which is that they are "fragile" the very instant the computer screws up, you regret having ever even tried a voice command. You feel super dumb. It's an interesting reaction. And partially, I think, why people are sort of up and down on the idea. If it fails even a few times they give up forever.
killer rin
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With Windows Phone 8.1, everything will go through Cortana. When you hit the search button like you usually do to search the internet, It doesn't matter if you speak the commands or type them as Cortana will go through, process and bring up the information on top of what you usually get today.
Alx
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I don't know how much I'd use voice commands on the phone, but I like how you can control what kind of information the software will parse to know your habits and interests. It's something that made me uneasy with Google Now. (but then if you don't let it read your emails and contact list, you'll probably miss many of the useful features)
PseudoKirby
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I thought he was at 343 slaving away at Halo Infinity.
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