[Lance_WPCentral]

I'm not sure how many of you are aware of this. If you press the search button once you get Bing. If you hold the button continuously you get a voice recognition system, something similar to Cortana.

[Geddeeee]

It's been there since WP8....

[Lance_WPCentral]

It's been there since WP8....

Is it? Ohh my bad its something I really never noticed.

[xandros9]

you can hit the mic button and voice dictate text messages too in the app.

kinda sad it doesn't apply elsewhere.

[djslofstra]

To rephrase the question in the title a but differently: Didn't you know that it had one? On WP8, you had to press the WP button for a while to activate it, on WP8.1 it is a long press on the search button indeed. ;) Very usefull if you want to call somebody while using you're headset. ;) Even Symbian, and even the Nokia 3510 had voice recognation software to call somebody, Symbian even had the useless function to ask "What time is it?". I think also WP7.8 had voice recognition, I don't recall on knowing that for sure though.

[foxbat121]

Microsoft had that voice recognition feature for a long time. Windows Mobile/Pocket PC had it many years ago, long before Siri.