Cortana in Canada

[Rodrigo Pereira Teixeira]

I live in Canada and I'm using Cortana as if I lived in the United States. As mentioned before on WPC, GDR 1 should include the option to use Cortana as Alpha in Canada... Any idea on how to do so? I've changed my region to Canada and I kept my language as USA, but that didn't work 'cause Cortana was disabled and I got that old search back! =/

Any idea?

 

[Rasetech]

Have you tried switching language to English (Canada)?

 

[Rodrigo Pereira Teixeira]

There is no such thing as English Canada on language =/

 

[Rasetech]

It is on my Lumia 1020.

 

[sp990]

Hey guys, the settings for Canada in Update 1 are as follows:

UI Language: English (Canada)
Region: Canada
Speech: English (United States)

Sorry for the confusion!

-Sandeep

 

[Rodrigo Pereira Teixeira]

Hey guys, the settings for Canada in Update 1 are as follows:

UI Language: English (Canada)
Region: Canada
Speech: English (United States)

Sorry for the confusion!

-Sandeep

Thanks! Working now!

 

[HalfBlackCanadian]

Just wanted to say THANKS, I was sad when Cortana Alpha did.t just work

 

[ShaneRay]

I know it's "alpha", but they still make it difficult to get things going with all the regions, languages, and corresponding options in WP. Frustrating.

Anyway, try this. Worked for me:

Settings-->Language-->Add Languages--> English (Canada)-->reboot phone.

That's assuming you have everything else set up as I did, which sounds like you have.

 

[Rodrigo Pereira Teixeira]

Still not working for me. I have everything set to "Canada" where possible, but when I go to the Cortana settings it still tells me "Cortana can only work if your speech language matches your display language." When you go to speech language, only "English (India)", "English (United Kingdom)", and "English (United States)" exist. When I'm set to the United States one, I can't flip the switch.

Man, mine is...

Region: Canada
Regional Format: English (Canada)

Language: English (Canada)


The thing is... I also have english USA and Portuguese (Brazil) as languages, but I've moved English Canada to the Top above English USA

 

[worldspy99]

Get the phone out of airplane mode and turn location on...you should be set.

 

[chezm]

So with the people who have had experience with Cortana since 8.1 launched, do you find shes actually learned about YOU and your needs? I gave her permission to my FB account, allowed her access to majority of my personal settings and filled out my interests/preferences. However, nothing has happened since i activated her...the live tile is just the latest headline...will she become more robust over time (with getting to know "me")?

 

[fc000]

I've enabled the Alpha and found she shows nothing but the Weather. Any custom news categories don't show with results, and trying to add new interests results in a blank black screen. All other interests that we're setup while having the region set to US are gone except news. I get the weather in Celsius which is awesome, but nothing else..

 

[pipe7]

I've enabled the Alpha and found she shows nothing but the Weather. Any custom news categories don't show with results, and trying to add new interests results in a blank black screen. All other interests that we're setup while having the region set to US are gone except news. I get the weather in Celsius which is awesome, but nothing else..

Ya I was a bit disappointed that so much was missing. I know its Alpha but I was hoping that just meant a lot of the interests etc would just use the US stuff - which worked well in Canada anyway. I've switched to UK Cortana now, going to try that out for a while. At least the weather is in Celsius by default. And not minding the new voice (English accent).

 

[fc000]

Ya I was a bit disappointed that so much was missing. I know its Alpha but I was hoping that just meant a lot of the interests etc would just use the US stuff - which worked well in Canada anyway. I've switched to UK Cortana now, going to try that out for a while. At least the weather is in Celsius by default. And not minding the new voice (English accent).

I've done the same, switched to UK Cortana. I don't understand Microsofts reasoning for disabling all these features. Using US Cortana in Canada was working perfectly.

The only areas I saw issues were a lack of "recommendations" when it came to nearby restaurants, which would have been mitigated by the plethora of Foursquare data they're now adding. Time to leave alerts, news, sports, all these things are working great in Canada with the US version. The reason I switched was because I was getting sick of getting the weather in Fahrenheit.

Sadly for me personally, the thing that's still missing from any Cortana regions is a setting for transit preferences. I don't need to know how long it takes to drive to get to work or an appointment. I take Transit everywhere or walk, and that still isn't an option.

Oh well, UK Cortana it is for now.

 

[paulsalter]

Sadly for me personally, the thing that's still missing from any Cortana regions is a setting for transit preferences. I don't need to know how long it takes to drive to get to work or an appointment. I take Transit everywhere or walk, and that still isn't an option.

Oh well, UK Cortana it is for now.

Not sure if this helps
If you open up Cortana and go to interests, tap on the getting around icon that appears, from the next screen you can change it from Driving to using Public Transport

Not tried this option so unsure how it works

 

[thaman04]

Your speech settings in those screenshots are not English UK... change that too.

 

[fc000]

Not sure if this helps
If you open up Cortana and go to interests, tap on the getting around icon that appears, from the next screen you can change it from Driving to using Public Transport

Not tried this option so unsure how it works

Is this under adding a new Interest? I'd love to try this out if my "choose a category" screen wasn't blank.

 

[Noob1ee]

Looks like I'll stick with the US version for the time being...

 

[paulsalter]

Is this under adding a new Interest? I'd love to try this out if my "choose a category" screen wasn't blank.

It was one of the default interests it added for me, I was getting blank pages yesterday but worked today

 

[fc000]

It was one of the default interests it added for me, I was getting blank pages yesterday but worked today

Are you using Cortana Canada Alpha, UK Beta, or US Beta? I'm hoping my category screen comes back soon to have a look.