Microsoft announced today that its Xiaoice bot will now be overseen by a new standalone company. Microsoft launched the chatbot for the Chinese market back in 2014, and Xiaoice basically acts as a personal assistant on networks such as Weibo.
Microsoft has published this week an interesting white paper about the usage of digital assistants in 2019, revealing that Cortana has a 19% usage share in the US.
Microsoft apparently had a plan to make a bigger consumer push with Cortana-powered devices with a dedicated [email protected] engineering team within the company.
A new Microsoft patent describes a “silent voice input” apparatus that could push voice recognition technology to the next level.
Microsoft and Amazon missed their previous deadline for delivering the Cortana/Alexa integration in 2017, but both companies say that it's coming "soon."
If the Cortana/Alexa integration won't be enabled until later this year, Microsoft explained how the collaboration between the two digital assistants will make everyone's life a bit easier.
Microsoft's Cortana and Amazon's Alexa could begin working much closer together according to a report from the New York Times. The two digital assistants have already shown signs of some cross-pollination this past year with Alexa adding support for Microsoft's ... Read more
A new study from Verto Analytics shows that Cortana is one of the few digital assistants on the rise in the US.
Amazon is currently in talks with the world's biggest PC manufacturer Lenovo to include its Alexa digital assistant in its computers and other devices, which would be the first time that Alexa is directly integrated in non-Amazon devices.
Cortana, Microsoft personal assistant with a female personality, has to deal with harassment like real-life assistants. Microsoft explains what the company has done so far to enable Cortana to fight back.