Another use for Cortana (and Alexa): Controlling Microsoft's Xbox
Cortana- and Alexa-powered devices soon will enable users to control many of their Xbox One console activities using their voice.
Cortana- and Alexa-powered devices soon will enable users to control many of their Xbox One console activities using their voice.
Microsoft researchers are making advances in overlapped speech recognition, in part, thanks to a new conical microphone array.
It turns out the Johnson Controls GLAS thermostat, now available for preorder, is built with Cortana, but also works with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant.
Microsoft and Amazon finally are making available to the public their promised Cortana and Alexa integration across Windows 10 PCs and Echo devices in early preview form.
Microsoft is advocating that Congress become involved in regulating facial-recognition technology, on the heels of criticism of potentially negative impacts of its own work in that area.
Microsoft's LinkedIn unit has developed a new dynamic translation service for posts in the LinkedIn news feed, and used some of Microsoft's cognitive services to build it.
Microsoft is buying one of the AI companies in which it has invested: Bonsai, a deep reinforcement platform for enterprise/industrial applications.
Microsoft may be looking to get more involved in the checkout-free retail space, a market where Amazon has been making its mark as of late.
Chris Jones, the director of Microsoft's HealthCare NExT incubator has left the company after 26 years in various posts across the company.
Microsoft is touting the 'full duplex' conversational capabilities of its Chinese chatbot, Xiaoice, while promising similar functionality will come soon to its Zo.ai bot.