From the course: Developing UWP Apps: 10 Voice, Speech, and Cortana

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Cortana concepts

Cortana concepts

- [Narrator] So you don't have to work with Cortana and developing apps with Cortana integration very long to realize that Cortana is absolutely much more than just a simple reminder service or an interactive search interface. In fact, it blows other platforms away. Realistically, other platforms can do about five or 10% of what Cortana allows you to do when it comes to app integration. In fact, you can really do almost anything. In fact, there are even tricks to get around some of the unsupported scenarios with Cortana. And I find that, in general, almost anything you want to do, you can do by integrating Cortana. And so the concept is really just this, is that we pass information to Cortana and Cortana has the smarts to evaluate that against our command sets and then passes that information over to our app. So it makes it really easy to incorporate functionality from our app into a Cortana experience. And the APIs provide simple mechanisms so that we can handle even extremely…

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