CORTANA

" Cortana" is an intelligent personal assistant created by Microsoft  to compete against voice assistants
like Apple's "Siri" and Google's  "Goggle Now"

-It is basically a human voice recognition software that works by  taking inputs from the voice of the user rather than by keyboard

-It was demonstrated for the first time at the Microsoft build developer conference held on 2 april,2014

-It is available for
   windows 10 pc,
   windows 10 mobile,
   windows phone 8.1

-Cortana is currently available in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese languages.

HISTORY  BEHIND CORTANA:
-Cortana is a artificial intelligent (AI) character in Halo video game series
-It was constructed by the cloned brain of Dr.Catherine and the voice of the character is given by    Jen Taylor

FUNCTIONALITIES OF CORTANA:

-Cortana can set remainders and phone notifications
-It replies to user commands using Bing search engine(Microsoft edge) and  Firefox search engine
-Cortana also includes a music recognition system
-We can dictate emails to Cortana, get directions or find cool things nearby, or simply search the Web.
-On the desktop, she(Cortana) attempts to search for documents.
-We can give any commands to it like  knowing the current location, telling stories, getting weather   information, singing a song, telling jokes, news updates, etc

TECHNOLOGY BEHIND CORTANA:
The natural language processing capabilities of Cortana are derived from "Tellme Networks" (bought by Microsoft in 2007) and are coupled with a Semantic search database called "Satori".Computing power for Cortana is provided by Microsoft's extensive cloud computing resources that also power Microsoft Azure.

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