by Surur
20 hours
Despite a major vote of no confidence from their CEO, the Cortana team has continued to work on improving their digital voice assistant. The team has introduced two new features in the Connected Home section of the app – Sce...
by Surur
2 days
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has just raised the white flag on their half-hearted competition with the Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant digital voice assistants. “We are very mindful of the categories we enter where we can d...
by Surur
3 days
The Harmon Kardon Invoke Cortana speaker is more or less dead and buried, but according to Microsoft Cortana does not need dedicated hardware in any case, at least not from Microsoft. “On the smart speaker side of things, we’v...
2 weeks
Google’s Assistant had a very eventful 2018, spreading on smart speakers, smart screens, expanding its language base, and now the firm expects it to reach a billion users by the end of January 2019. Of course, there’s ...
by Surur
2 weeks
Cortana has become a somewhat unwelcome feature in Windows 10, and Microsoft has been making increasing moves to distance themselves from their own voice assistant. The latest is disabling the Cortana voice-over when setting up Wi...
by Surur
4 weeks
Windows Phone 8.1 is no longer supported, and that means even Microsoft is dropping services for the platform, including updates and even Store support. It seems one of those features being dropped is some elements of Cortana, wit...
by Surur
4 weeks
Google’s Home Alone Google Assistant ad featuring Macaulay Culkin has gone somewhat viral. The ad recreates the Home Alone movies, but this time with Google’s Assistant keeping the hero company. The success of the ad p...
by Surur
4 weeks
Loup Ventures have published the results of their semi-annual IQ test of digital assistants/ smart speakers, using a battery of 800 typical questions, and have found the speakers continue to get smarter and smarter. The analysts c...
by Surur
1 month
When it comes to voice assistants on smartphones, the best one is usually the one built into your smartphone, but a recently leaked feature of Cortana may make her your new favourite. The WC reports that Cortana integration with t...
by Surur
1 month
We reported recently that Microsoft appears to be working to make it possible to replace Cortana with another voice assistant in the next version of Windows 10 19H1, and speculated that these applications would need to have Above ...