Microsoft cortana, virtual assistant

1. Dr. C Namrata Mahender
Submitted to
Name:Deepak Ugale
Dept:Computer Science
Dr.B.A.M.University Aurangabad India
Roll No.:41 (B4)
Date:24/2/2020
Subject:Artificial Intelligence
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2. 1 Introductin of cortana
2 History of cortana
3 component of cortana
4 contribution of cortana
5 comparison of cortana
6 References

3.  Cortana is virtual assistant created by Microsoft for Windows 10
 Cortana is digital assistant. It was originally developed for Windows
Phone 8.1 and is included in Windows 10.
 Cortana is a voice-activated personal assistant.

4. Cortana responds to natural language
 Cortana can perform a variety of organizational tasks for
end users.
That all voice task commands including:
 setting reminders.
 scheduling calendar
events.
 calculating math
problems.
 converting
measurements.
 money transaction.
 Search
 Maps
 Navigation
 Entertainment
 helth & fitness
 messaging
 random voice
commands

6. History of Cortana
 The development of Cortana started in 2009 in the Microsoft Speech
products team with general manager Zig Serafin and Chief Scientist Larry
Heck. Heck and Serafin established the vision, mission, and long-range plan
for Microsoft's digital personal assistant
 It is named after Cortana, a synthetic intelligence character in Microsoft's
Halo video game franchise originating in Bungie folklore, with Jen Taylor, the
character's voice actress.
 Lumia phone was “zCortana”in 2013.
 Cortana demonstrated Microsoft BUILD Developer Conference (April 2–4,
2014) in San Francisco.
 Microsoft's planned "makeover" of the future operating systems for Windows
Phone & windows.
 it made the leap to Android, iOS, and Xbox One throughout 2015 and 2016.
 In 2016, Microsoft announced that developers would be able to connect with
Cortana through a new bots platform, in addition to plugging into it directly
for natural interactions.
 In 2017 Cortana is primarily found on Windows 10 PCs.

7. Development of Cortana
 Cortana's development actually began in 2009, under Zig Serafin and Larry Heck, who
were engineers working with Microsoft Research and the Microsoft Speech team.
 Heck & Zig, the first release offered a taste of what he had in mind. Over time, Heck
wanted Cortana to interact in an increasingly anticipatory, natural manner. While not a
true AI, Cortana increasingly recognizable human-like traits, and that's no accident.
Heck had to say back in 2014.
 The base technologies for a virtual personal assistant include speech recognition,
semantic/natural language processing, dialogue modeling between human and
machines, and spoken-language generation. Each area has in it a number of research
problems that Microsoft Research has addressed over the years. In fact, we've
pioneered efforts in each of those areas.

8. Build a speech-enabled bot with Cortana skills build
Using C# & .NET
Display cards in Cortana.
Cortana skill for rolling dice.
messaging endpoint using ngrok.
users invoke .
users interact .
 intelligence to your skill using Microsoft Cognitive
Services.
Natural language understanding.

10.  Bot Framework bots
 Microsoft Research researchers Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan
Tur, Andreas Stolcke, and Malcolm Slaney.
 research software developer Madhu Chinthakunta, and
user experience designer Lisa Stifelman.
 Microsoft Speech products team with general manager
Zig Serafin and Chief Scientist Larry Heck.

11. Cortana & other voice Assistant
Cortana is still better than Alexa, which fell from 90% accuracy in 2017 to 79%
accuracy this year or Siri, which dropped from around 85% to 70%. It was
Cortana that saw the steepest dive, however. Almost 90% of its answers were
complete and accurate in 2017, yet it could only offer accurate answers 53% of
the time this year.
As other assistants focus on consumer use cases, Cortana is now able to
transcribe your meetings, perform voice email playback, find and automatically
remind you about tasks in your emails, and schedule your meetings. Cortana
has also entered Microsoft Teams and Skype in recent years.
Cortana for things like sending an email via Outlook with your voice or
manage your calendar. Likewise, Cortana users will be able to call upon Alexa
to use one of her thousands of skills or control the smart devices around
their home

12. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cortana/skills/
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/the-complete-list-of-cortana-
commands/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortana
https://www.slideshare.net/MSAdvAnalytics/cortana-
analytics-workshop-cognizant-and-cortana-
analytics?qid=9fc6ef8b-cd3a-4939-85d3-
97a18f105fed&v=&b=&from_search=5
https://sec.ch9.ms/slides/winHEC/2_03_Cortana_Speech_Platf
orm.pdf

13. THANKS
Any Quetions..?