What is Cortana?

Cortana is an intelligent personal assistant developed by Microsoft. Cortana is able to know user's habits, help user to arrange his or her schedule, and answer user's questions. It can be said that Cortana is an attempt in the area of artificial intelligence and machine learning.

What Microsoft truly wants to achieve is the real interactive communication between Cortana and the user rather than the simple conversation just based on the storage. Cortana can record what the user do and what his or her using habits are like. Then it will utilize cloud computing, search engine, and unstructured data to read, analyze and learn the data including file, email, picture, video, etc. In this way, Cortana can understand the meaning of what the user says and thereby achieve communication. For example, if the schedule in phone shows that is going to be a meeting, then, without any operation, Cortana will  set the cellphone in meeting mode.

So far, we have been able to use Cortana at different platforms, such as Windows 10, iOS, Android. We can also choose the languages we like; Cortana is now available in English, French ,German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese. Once we download Cortana, we will be able to manage our busy life and search for information we want more easily and fast by using it.

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Picture References:

1.https://scdn.androidcommunity.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cortana.jpg

2.http://cdn1.vox-cdn.com/assets/4222613/cortana-windows-phone-theverge-5_1020.jpg

Writing References:

1.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortana_(software)

2.http://baike.baidu.com/link?url=pqi_MVa1S41QP7m8iU4s0_Wy6DOk2HW5I8NVU4z71IpmQsrXuq9YR700D2SOPP3X8mcZCjh0YHf_EBaTVt3klzDyORS0wuxH0s2W0lTMLym