Microsoft, the face of Cortana - Computer Point

new details emerge on the server virtual for the next Windows Phone: Cortana frugherà between the user’s data to advise and answer your questions. Yahoo also has ambitious plans in Serbia

Rome – The voice assistant that Microsoft borrowed from the world of Halo to animate smartphones that will mount the next version of Windows Phone will start to call: already the next update, Windows Phone 8.1, you can count on Cortana.

confirm this after the first rumors of the past few months, is The Verge , which identified traces of Cortana in a recent SDK and obtained information from unspecified specified sources within Microsoft. The character of Cortana, he says, will be shaped like a hybrid between the discretion of Siri and the attentiveness of the services of Google Now, will the service user and always operating to scrape data that can be processed to know him better.

Cortana, first of all, will have a look round and it comes alive when they will be questioned or’ll be processing information: The Verge also promises the flashes of brilliance that will fit in the context of the questions posed by ‘user.

To answer the questions, as well as tap into Bing, the assistant of Windows Phone will refer to the location information, contacts, reminders, in essence, to all the data that the user relies on their smartphone . Just on the basis of these data, Cortana will select the information which may be useful to you: may suggest the addition of a reminder if you receive messages that require appointments, provide weather forecasts drawn up on the basis of the location of the next movement or music to listen to in certain contexts.

It will be up to the user to choose where Cortana can rummage The Verge anticipates that it will be possible to manage the invasiveness of Cortana through a feature called Notebook, thanks to which can determine which categories of data to be accessible , and even delete or edit this information. Like any self-respecting assistant, also Cortana may also be silenced by setting notifications silent.

Fire Proof of Cortana is expected “in the coming months”, with the update of Windows Phone and terminals that will support it if the only time you will be able to judge the quality of interaction with the voice assistant, there are those who already promises a future of integration, which can embrace the entire ecosystem of Microsoft Windows to Xbox. Along with Cortana, in parallel with the work on Apple’s Siri and Google on Now, is moving even Yahoo, which has just signed an agreement with Carnegie Mellon University for the project inmind. With 5 years of work and an investment of $ 10 million, providing researchers with access to the infrastructure, software and data users, Yahoo hopes to develop applications that, based on an understanding of the context in which they are immersed , can handle a rudimentary conversation with the man.

Gaia Bottà