Microsoft
recently announced their latest upgrade in the production of Nokia Lumia which
is hitting hard in the mobile market. The name ‘Cortana’ was gotten from the
fictional artificial intelligent (AI) character in the Halo video game series
and choose the name ‘cortana” due to the huge number of fans the game series
has made who also requested the name is used.
The artificial
intelligent personal assistance software is part of the upgrade in windows 81
for windows Smartphone. On April 4 2014 Microsoft showed off cortana to the
public during build 2014 which was a Microsoft developer’s conference that
lasted for four days (April 2 – 4) at San Francisco.
The software is
voiced by Jen Taylor who currently voices the Cortana in the Halo game series.
Cortana which is
powered by Bing can help you set your reminder, tell you what the weather will
look like in a few hours or days, track your flight and Cortana has been said
to be able flip a coin and roll dice. You can actually ask cortana series of
questions using the human language and she will reply you in human language. Cortana
can also make football predictions as she predicted the winners of the first 14
matches of the 2014 world cup knockout stage including the semi-final but she
lost the prediction of Brazil against Netherlands.
Cortana is
represented with two animated circles and it is initiated by the search key and
the team of researchers that made Cortana led by Marcus Ash are constantly
updating the software. Later in 2014 users will just have to speak to their
phone to initiate Cortana.
In September 2014 it was
announced that cortana can be used effectively in UK and China.
Cortana is compactable
with all windows 8.1 phones like the new Lumia 830 and 735 and the upcoming
Lumia Danim series which is to be launched in October 2014, there will be an
improvement in the cortana as she will be active listening. This is a similar
future of Moto X in Android. With the active listening future, cortana is
always listening to hear the phrase that initiates it. Like “Hey Cortana” so u
don’t have to touch the phone.
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