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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" to/wp8/cortana/what-can-i-say-to-cortanahttp:// to/wp8/cortana/what-can-i-say-to-cortana How to start

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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 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 In app speech reconigtion

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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

courses/universal-windows-app-development-with-cortana- and-the-speech-sdkhttp:// courses/universal-windows-app-development-with-cortana- and-the-speech-sdk Search-for-95c16d92https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/MSDN-Voice- Search-for-95c16d Reference

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