3. WHOāS CORTANA?
ā¢ Personal digital assistant similar to Siri and Google Now
ā¢ Trying to combine the best of both
ā¢ Can be talked to or typed at
ā¢ Responds in the same way as addressed
ā¢ Replaces current Windows Phone Search completely
ā¢ Available from Windows Phone 8.1 on
4. CLOSER LOOK
ā¢ Cortana uses Bing and Satori to try and comply to your requests
ā¢ Understand and make sense of userās words instead of
plain pattern matching
ā¢ Remembers userās personal environment in a notebook
ā¢ Userās relations to other persons, preferences, habits
ā¢ Notebook is accessible and editable
ā¢ Tries to be pro-active, displaying information the user
probably wants
ā¢ Depends on time of day, location, calendar, reservations,
current events
5. DIFFERENTIATING FEATURES
ā¢ Claims of semantic understanding of userās needs and the ability
to reason about them in a given context
ā¢ Example of a Lufthansa flight that Cortana suggested
to rebook because of an upcoming strike
ā¢ āSocial triggersā ā reminders can be set that not only trigger
on location or time but also when calling/texting a person
ā¢ āRemind me tell my wife about my new carā
ā¢ Third party app integration
ā¢ āCortana SDKā
6. BEST OF BOTH?
ā¢ The voice processing is reported to be very good
ā¢ āWitty and smartā impersonation
ā¢ High search capabilities due to better integration to Bing and
its āback-endā Satori
ā¢ Predictive search
ā¢ Conversational search
ā¢ Subsequent questions are semantically linked to
ācurrentā results