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• Introduction to Cortana

• Demo Cortana on Windows Phone.

• Introduction to Voice Commands and Text to Speech

• How to add Cortana to your application

Overview

• Your personal digit assistant that is data aware and location aware

• Character from Halo

• Currently available on WP8.1

• Will be available on iPhone and Android

• One of the new features of Windows 10 includes desktop, tablet, phone and xbox

Cortana

• Set your region to United States (required reboot).

• Start Cortana, "What can I say"

• http://www.windowsphone.com/en-nz/how-to/wp8/cortana/what-can-i-say-to-cortana

How to start

Demo

• 3 steps to set up Voice Commands

1. Create a Voice Command Definition file (VCD).

2. Register the VCD file.

3. Handle voice command activation

Cortana Voice commands

• Declare Media element in XAML

<MediaElement x:Name="feedbackMediaElement"/>

• C#

var speechSynthesizer = new Windows.Media.SpeechSynthesis.SpeechSynthesizer();

var stream = await speechSynthesizer.SynthesizeTextToStreamAsync(feedback);

feedbackMediaElement.SetSource(stream, stream.ContentType);

feedbackMediaElement.Play();

Text to speech

• After your application has been activated to continue the conversation with the user

• http://www.bing.com/dev/en-us/speech

In app speech reconigtion

Demo

• Built in to the OS, should cover all devices.

E.g. A voice pizza ordering app across all of the devices

• Not sure how deep the integration goes but assume the searching, reminder, calendar should be there.

Windows 10

• http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/training-courses/universal-windows-app-development-with-cortana-and-the-speech-sdk

• https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/MSDN-Voice-Search-for-95c16d92

• http://www.bing.com/dev/en-us/speech

• http://www.buildwindows.com/

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