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Cortana available on iOS and Android

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Re: Cortana available on iOS and Android

#11

How about you let me strip it completely out of Windows 10 instead of just turning/disabling it mostly off?

Do you mean get all the features in windows 10 ported to iOS and android?

Cortana integrates pretty deeply into the OS for that to happen.. Apple/Google would have to allow it and THATS not happening :)

Re: Cortana available on iOS and Android

#14
post #9

do Siri, OK Google or Cortana offer any API's for 3rd party apps? So that I could do things like get X app to do Y with voice commands? Either when I've got the app open/focused, or even when the app isn't running?

I think both Siri and Google Now offer third-party hooks, even on the watches. I'm not sure about Cortana.

Re: Cortana available on iOS and Android

#17
post #9

do Siri, OK Google or Cortana offer any API's for 3rd party apps? So that I could do things like get X app to do Y with voice commands? Either when I've got the app open/focused, or even when the app isn't running?

Cortana does: https://dev.windows.com/en-us/cortana

Re: Cortana available on iOS and Android

#18
post #15

No way to say "hey Cortana" even if the app is open? Personally, I'm looking for an app where I can say "take a note" then spend the next 15 minutes saying my notes into my device with having to touch the screen.

It's an hour long project for Android Wear. The default note taking does what you say, but I doubt it would work very well for 15 minutes.

Re: Cortana available on iOS and Android

#20

I want to like Cortana, I really do. Unfortunately, it's linked to my phone's default language. So even though I could speak English, Cortana will not talk to me because my phone's interface is in Spanish. That is something I can understand - maybe there are development reasons why second language voice recognition is not possible. However, every time I update my OS, Cortana is added to my main screen again, perhaps…

On PC it refuses even if my user interface is English.
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