Microsoft's Cortana is late to the voice-enabled assistant support, but aims to leapfrog Siri and Google Now with its conversational model, personalization, and extensibility. Share on Facebook (opens ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Cortana’s learning the neighborhood. Google’s digital assistant can’t tell a joke. And Siri apparently has a thing for the metric system. Those are just a few of the things I learned ...

Microsoft announced it would bring its digital assistant, Cortana, to third-party mobile platforms later this year at the company’s own Build conference in May, and it’s finally making good on that ...

Are you talking to your technology yet? For a few years now we’ve seen an uptick in speech recognition technology. We’ve had Siri in our pockets since 2011 (hands-free since 2014), we’ve had Google ...

Since most of the Google Now team has apparently left Google in frustration -- if recent reports are to be believed -- is it time for Cortana to shine on Android? Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...

While it was evident that the days of virtual assistants like Siri, Cortana, and Google Assistant were numbered soon after the arrival of generative AI on the scene, the speed at which these changes ...

When it comes to buying your next smartphone or gadget, one of the big questions you have to ask yourself is how much you care about voice commands. If you are buying a device because you want to be ...

Several years ago voice assistants were the next big thing on our smartphones and other devices, and it led to four big options – Google Assistant, Apple’s Siri, Samsung’s Bixby, and Microsoft Cortana ...

SEATTLE — Voice-controlled digital assistants such as Apple’s Siri, Google Assistant, Amazon’s Alexa and Microsoft’s Cortana are good at numerous things. They can help people play music, set up ...

Microsoft wants Android users to choose its Cortana virtual assistant over Google Now, and its latest update for the service makes that more viable. The beta version of Cortana for Android now allows ...