New Microsoft Patent Shows Cortana Parsing Messages and Context Microsoft filed a patent this week that would upgrade its Cortana voice assistant to make it easier to converse with... AI 27 Dec 1
How Headphones Are Keeping the Microsoft Cortana Mobile App Alive, But Only in the USA A little over a month after first spelling out the end for the stand-alone Cortana voice assistant mobile app for.. Microsoft 24 Dec 1
Gaming Voice Assistant Startup Fridai Joins Microsoft Accelerator Ahead of Xbox Launch Video game voice assistant developer Fridai will be part of the next Microsoft for Startups accelerator cohort. The Berlin-based startup.. AI 20 Dec 4
Microsoft Cortana Malfunctioning on Smart Speakers The Harman Kardon Invoke smart speaker with Microsoft’s Cortana voice assistant no longer seems to be working according to complaints.. Devices 16 Dec 4
U.S. Consumers Do Express a Preference for Female Gendered Voice Assistants According to New Research There are intermittent discussions within the voice technology community and in the media about the gender of popular consumer voice.. AI 23 Nov 2
Cortana to Be Removed from Non-U.S. App Stores, Directing Users to Microsoft 365 for Productivity Assistant Microsoft is shutting down the Cortana app everywhere except the United States., according to an update on its support website... Microsoft 18 Nov 2
Microsoft Adds Cortana Voice Assistant to iOS Outlook The Microsoft Cortana voice assistant is now available on Outlook for iOS devices for the first time. The company revealed.. Microsoft 8 Nov 2
Microsoft Power Virtual Agents is Bot Building for Anyone, That is Anyone Building for Enterprise Customer Service “We want every company out there to be a tech company in its own right,” said Satya Nadella, CEO of.. AI 7 Nov 2
Voice Assistants Are Becoming Less Accurate, But Google Assistant is Still the Smartest: Report Voice assistants are answering fewer questions correctly compared to a couple of years ago according to the latest annual report.. Amazon Alexa 31 Oct 3
Amazon, Baidu, Cerence, Microsoft, Tencent, and 30 Other Companies Launch Voice Interoperability Initiative Amazon announced today the creation of the Voice Interoperability Initiative, which a media release summarizes as “a new program to.. Amazon Alexa 24 Sep 4