This document provides an overview of Cortana, Microsoft's digital assistant. It discusses Cortana's origins in the Halo video game series, how it was constructed from a cloned brain in the novels. The document then explains how Cortana works as an AI assistant for Windows phones, allowing voice commands, setting reminders and notifications, and accessing information through a Notebook system. It concludes with discussing the importance of speech recognition and natural language processing for Cortana's conversational abilities.

1. By
KANISHKA BOSE
Computer Science & Engg.
Under Guidance
Of
VTU Belgaum, Karnataka.

2. 1. Introduction to Cortana
2. History.
3. Cortana as Interface.
4. Cortana as a Powerful personal assistant.
5. Apple’s Siri Vs Microsoft Cortana.
6. Working of Cortana.
7. Speech Recognition( Natural Language Processing).
8. Importance of Cortana.
References

3.  Cortana: everything you need to know about Microsoft's Siri rival.
 To anyone who's played the Halo games, Cortana needs no introduction:
she's an advanced artificial intelligence and Master Chief's only real friend.
 Cortana is currently the code name for a whole new way of controlling
Windows Phone, and in the longer term maybe Windows too.

4.  Cortana is a fictional artificially intelligent (AI) character in
the Halo video game series.
 The origin of Cortana is not explained in the video games, but in
the Halo novels. Her first chronological appearance in the story is in Halo:
The Fall of Reach, a 2001 prequel to the first Halo game.
 Cortana is constructed from the cloned brain of Dr. Catherine Elizabeth
Halsey, the creator of the SPARTAN Project.
 According to the Halo novels, Cortana is classified as a "smart" AI,
meaning that her creative matrix is allowed to expand, in contrast to the
limited matrix of other "dumb" AI characters in the stories.

9.  Cortana will allow Windows Phone users to set how they want to be
addressed by the voice-activated assistant.
 Cortana can call users by their name or nicknames like "Master Chief"
after the function is enabled in the settings.
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 A key part of Cortana is its ability to save information and data in a
Notebook system.
 Notebook will allow the Cortana digital assistant to access information
such as location data, behaviours, personal information, reminders, and
contact information
 Cortana can also track flights or other mentions in emails, allowing it to
generate notifications similar to Google Now.

11.  Speech recognition - YOUR APP
 VOICE COMMANDS-- TEXT-TO-SPEECH
 (TTS)-- SPEECH RECOGNITION
 Natural interaction with your application
 Grammar-based
 Requires internet connection

15.  GOOGLE NOW: A Guide To World's Most Powerful Personal Digital
Assistant by Darren Nelson (Jan 31, 2014).
 Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing by Christopher D.
Manning and Hinrich Schütze (Jun 18, 1999).
 “AI Agents in Virtual Reality Worlds", J. Wiley 1996 (C++ framework for
AI in games).
 “The software society” Cultural and economic impact By William Meisel.
 Wikipedia 