Cortana features outside US/Launch Countries

[Fade_z]

This may still not be a full Cortana experiences as questions that are related to search and location will show you results from USA instead of your country so basically fail. Also if she starts making her Notebook and learn about you; when you have real stuff in your region, you will have to tear her notebook away and give her a new one to start from scratch.

Bing search queries maybe, but that's fine most of the time.

A large part is integral (appointments etc) and the rest is location based and fine for most European/western countries without weird symbols

 

[CandrabeQx]

From my testing of the emulator it seems like Region, Language and Speech all have to be set to US in order for Cortana to work.

uh oh, forgot to mention about the language & speech setting.. (I always use english for those), and yes.. they should be in US for Cortana to be enabled.

at least we can still have our regional format without have to worry about losing Cortana ��

 

[dukrem]

Also in Aus. I understand issues with cortana and localisation in countries where bing has significantly reduced functionality, but here in Australia we have local scout and good bing maps coverage, the same music scanning features, our windows 8 bing apps all work great with local news sources, we have localised licensing for content on xbox video and music, and WE SPEAK ENGLISH! We already have voice recognition support on xbox one too. Microsoft, please fast track cortana to places where there is very little additional work for localisation required.

 

[hs k]

From my testing of the emulator it seems like Region, Language and Speech all have to be set to US in order for Cortana to work.

That's ******* handy as dandy, I use my entire phone set to US, for the store.

 

[hermantj]

That's nice... I actually use my phone set to US (region, speech and language), even if I am living in Spain. The bing search is more developped, and I the os text isn't translated, I prefer it that way

 

[Luminatic]

Hmmm. Won't setting it to US mess up Time/Timezone?

(wont matter toll summer as I don't have a developer account)

 

[hs k]

Nah, because if you set the region to set to US to acess the store and Bing features, it doesn't change the time

 

[jagudi]

I hope she speaks Portuguese pt, not br :eck:

 

[neo158]

can you confirm whether or not quiet hours, inner circle etc are still present? Could handle not having a Cortana to TALK to if that stuff was still present...

Those features rely on Cortana so they aren't present if your language is set to something other than US.

 

[AndyCalling]

Yep. If you're one of the very few users in the US club you'll be fine, if you're one of the many users in the THEM club you'll be left in the cold.

 

[ven07]

I'm in Australia, and am excited to see Cortana, but do read that it will be launching in "other countries" in 2015...

Anyone know if this includes some of the features like quiet hours etc? I really would be disappointed to have to wait ANOTHER year for that...

Hey avd, I found a great answer, apparently as long as the phone region is set to US we can use Cortana (so it was like I thought; Language barrier -_- )

http://forums.windowscentral.com/wi...different-wp8-1-compared-8-0-lumia-920-a.html

scroll down a bit

 

[Susmit257]

hopefully cortana will work by changing the region to US

 

[neo158]

I'm willing to wait for Cortana, it's due here in the UK Q2 this year and it's still in beta anyway.

 

[ven07]

can you confirm whether or not quiet hours, inner circle etc are still present? Could handle not having a Cortana to TALK to if that stuff was still present...

Those features will be available with the dev preview, but only in English so set your phone to US if you want them

 

[ven07]

hopefully cortana will work by changing the region to US

It will, but you might also need the dev preview app installed.. Not sure though

 

[Srvgodara]

What if cortana is distributed as per model no.

 

[neo158]

What if cortana is distributed as per model no.

Except it won't, Cortana is an integral part of WP8.1 so ALL phones will have it but it will be restricted by region.

 

[ven07]

Except it won't, Cortana is an integral part of WP8.1 so ALL phones will have it but it will be restricted by region.

Yupp this guy.. This guy here, has got it right

 

[Eduardo Wandscheer]

I hope she speaks Portuguese pt, not br :eck:

Unfortunately cortana will speak pt-br because it is official variation chosen by Microsoft. Pt-BR is more spoken and learned around the world.
We have about 200 million of Pt-BR speakers and about 12 million of pt-pt speakers.

did you try to use voice command in Windows Phone 8 using pt-pt? It doesn't exist only pt-br is available.

 

[ven07]

This may still not be a full Cortana experiences as questions that are related to search and location will show you results from USA instead of your country so basically fail. Also if she starts making her Notebook and learn about you; when you have real stuff in your region, you will have to tear her notebook away and give her a new one to start from scratch.

Hey, i was under the impression that if i would teach her where certain things it would just enhance her knowledge of my country?? Because these things/places are already available on Bing and foursq