From the course: Developing UWP Apps: 10 Voice, Speech, and Cortana
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Cortana concepts
From the course: Developing UWP Apps: 10 Voice, Speech, and Cortana
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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Voice and speech concepts1m 2s
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Common scenarios1m 31s
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The speech recognizer1m 24s
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Speech synthesis1m 14s
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Integrating speech recognition3m 8s
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Cortana concepts1m 9s
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Cortana logic flow1m 26s
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Cortana integration2m 20s
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Integrating Cortana voice commands23m 23s
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Personal assistant actions1m 13s
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Advanced Cortana scenarios6m 12s
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