A new voice-controlled speaker from Harman Kardon is powered with the Cortana voice recognition system from Microsoft. And, it is now capable of accessing one of the widely used streaming audio apps — ...

When Microsoft introduced the Cortana digital personal assistant last year at the company's Build developer conference, the company already left hints of its future ambitions for the technology.

The latest Xbox One update includes plenty of features to please gamers, but gaming has never been the sole focus of Microsoft’s console. While Microsoft has moved away from its goal of taking over ...

Users of Microsoft's voice-enabled services such as Cortana will now be able to decide whether or not the audio recordings of their interactions can be used by the company to improve its speech ...

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In October 2017, Amazon enabled its Alexa personal digital assistant to distinguish between the voices of different users. More than a year later, Microsoft seemingly is getting closer to enabling the ...

Cortana is getting multi-user support on Xbox and Harman Kardon Invoke devices very soon. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. While ...

How to turn on speech recognition and dictation in Windows 10 Your email has been sent As the quality of speech-to-text technology improves, the overall usefulness of speech recognition features and ...

This story was originally published Oct. 7, 2016, and updated May 10, 2017 with new information. Windows has a feature it doesn’t like to talk about. While the OS lets you scrawl notes with a stylus, ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Microsoft today announced it will give customers finer-grain control over ...

Stanford researchers found that speech recognition algorithms disproportionately misunderstood black speakers Stanford researchers found that speech recognition algorithms disproportionately ...