Sentences with phrase «cortana voice services»

GLAS will run on Microsoft's Windows 10 IoT Core operating system, and will have Cortana voice services built into the thermostat.

Microsoft states that GLAS features a combination of Azure Cloud, Cortana voice services, and the aforementioned Windows 10 IoT core.

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* Cortana voice activation works with select music services and home automation providers.

Microsoft has announced it is making its Cortana voice assistant AI available to third - party device makers, with third - party developers also set to get access to the platform for integrating into their services on Cortana - powered devices.The company's approach is based on two software kits currently available for preview: A Skills Kit that allows developers to build apps that can be called up and controlled via Cortana using voice commands, and a Cortana Devices SDK, which enables third - party hardware manufacturers to bake in the voice - activated AI to new devices.Premium audio company Harman Kardon is set to become one of the first device makers to make use of the SDK in a new wireless speaker, set to debut early next year.

There are a number of areas where we have not seen collaboration, but that could be ripe areas for it — for example Cortana integration into LinkedIn's new «smart replies» feature that suggests replies and wording to people sending messages to each other; or Skype integration into the same messaging service to allow for voice and video calling.

Built by Johnson Controls, the company that invented the first electric room thermostat, GLAS not only taps into Cortana voice controls but also the Windows 10 IoT Core operating system and Azure Cloud computing services.

Named after — and voiced by — the fictional AI from the Halo series of games, Cortana uses a combination of location - based services, natural language recognition, and contextual processing.

Cortana voice assistant is about on par with rivalling services (Google, Siri) and Microsoft has just enabled it for more countries — in the U.K as a beta, in China, Australia and Canada as an alpha.

With voice search and Google Now support, Google beat Microsoft's own Cortana service to Windows.

Unfortunately, it looks like Microsoft's promise to make Cortana, Windows Phone 8.1's much - heralded voice assistant, available to Canadians at launch will not pan out; the service will be US - only for the immediate future.

Johnson Controls is using Windows 10 IoT Core, Cortana voice activation, and back - end Azure insight services to power a new thermostat.

This new version of Cortana, reportedly dubbed «FamTana» internally, may also let you wake your PC with just your voice and stream music from third - party services.

In short, more accurate speech recognition for Cortana across desktop PCs and mobiles, although Microsoft also uses voice recognition elsewhere — in Office and Microsoft Cognitive Services, while even Windows has its own built - in speech recognition (which is better than you might think these days).

And thanks to the continued proliferation of smartphones, high - quality cameras are getting cheaper and cheaper even as voice recognition services like Siri, Alexa, Google Voice, and Cortana continue to improve.

Like Amazon's Echo, and Google Home, the Invoke will be voice - controlled with support for Microsoft's own services, as well as third - party tools through the Cortana Skills Kit, which the company announced last year, but which isn't yet available to developers.

Other services can also benefit from Cortana's capabilities and Windows 10 if developers choose to build new Universal apps using the special voice API.