Microsoft has its voice assistant Cortana for Windows Phone Friday is equipped with support for four new languages. It comes to French, Italian, German and Spanish. For the time being, the languages only to try out in the ontwikkelaarsversie of the mobile operating system.
Cortana supported all English and Chinese. There are now four new languages, although that for the time being only available for users who have the Preview for Developers installed. Microsoft says in a blog post that Cortana in all languages in alfafase and therefore functionalities to lack. So is vlieginformatie not yet available and travel information for public transportation is only for big cities.
The support for French, Italian, German, and Spanish rolls Microsoft Friday to devices with the ontwikkelaarsversie of Windows Phone, promises the American company. Users can the software giant, then voice and text input, so the voice assistant on the basis of that information itself can improve before Microsoft software final will come out.
Microsoft says to work hard on the regionalizing of Cortana. This means that the personality of the voice assistant per region may vary. So can Cortana in Germany other make jokes than it is in France, depending on topics that are locally relevant. In addition, Cortana will now also European soccer games, including Bundesliga, Serie A, Ligue 1 and La Liga.
The American software giant, working for some time to his speech – and information service since the who this year introduced for Windows Phone. In October foresaw Microsoft Cortana is still new functionality, such as an overview with information that the user at the beginning of the day is thrown. Among other things, the first appointment of the day, the weather and the expected travel time to the work or event to be displayed. It is not yet known when Cortana is available in English.
