Cortana Natural Language Queries - Feedback (Will go to Dev Team)

[drachen23]

Region/Language: EN-US
Exact Phrase Spoken: "Remind me tomorrow at 9AM to bring an umbrella" (spoken at 1AM 4/15)
Did Cortana parse this correctly: yes
Expected Results: A reminder to be created for the following morning at 9AM 4/15.
Actual Results: A reminder was crated for not the next morning, but the morning after that (4/16).
Feedback: Cortana should be aware that "9AM tomorrow morning" means "9AM on the next occuring morning" and not "9AM of the current calendar date plus one day"

.also.

Region/Language: EN-US
Exact Phrase Spoken: "What does the fox say?"
Did Cortana parse this correctly: no
Expected Results: A joke about the video "What Does the Fox Say?"
Actual Results: For three different people (2 males, one female - all native American English speakers), the results were "what does the f*** say". I also managed to get "what does the box say" once
Feedback: Hilarious, but almost "eat up Martha" wrong.

 

[Jason Drum]

Region/Language: US English
Exact Phrase Spoken: Text Krystle (pronounced crystal)
Did Cortana parse this correctly: Sort of, understood the pronunciation but pulled up a contact Crystal
Expected Results: To text Krystle
Actual Results: Pulled up different contact of Crystal with no option of Krystle
Feedback: It would be nice to train what the pronunciation is of contacts, especially the most commonly contacted. I can get the text/call to work but only if I pronounce the name "creest lay", but that's not her name and just sounds stupid. I've seen other people on the forums with a similar issue.

 

[jhoff80]

Region/Language: US English
Exact Phrase Spoken: Did the cards win last night?
Did Cortana parse this correctly: Yes
Expected Results: Should recognize St Louis Cardinals from my Sports Interests, and then be able to give the actual score.
Actual Results: Bing Search
Feedback: I assume this would be the same for any other abbreviated team name (Jags/Jaguars, Pats/Patriots, etc.)

 

[Deepcoiler]

Query Details

• Region/Language: EN-US
• Exact Phrase Spoken: "What is the diameter of the sun?"
• Did Cortana parse this correctly: Yes.
• Expected Results: The diameter of the sun, in whatever units deemed appropriate (maybe define units in query: "what is the diameter of the sun in x")
• Actual Results: Bing search for "what is the diameter of the sun"
• Feedback: Using a friend's iPhone with Siri nets the expected result plus a table with other details and unit conversions, populated by Wolfram Alpha.

 

[Johann Dirry]

Region/Language: US English
Exact Phrase Spoken: How late is it
Did Cortana parse this correctly: yes
Expected Results: 3:41am
Actual Results: Bing search results.
Feedback: there are many ways for asking for the time

 

[Johann Dirry]

Region/Language: US English
Exact Phrase Spoken: Tell me pi to seven digits
Did Cortana parse this correctly: almost (tell me pie put 7 digits)
Expected Results: tells me the value of archimedes constant (π)
Actual Results: Bing search results.
Feedback: Cortana should know the fundamental constants in mathematics and physics; physical dimensions and units; basic statistics of countries and planets, etc..

 

[jlangner]

Region/Language: US English
Exact Phrase Spoken: Remind to show Kevin the Arsenio video when I get home
Did Cortana parse this correctly: Yes
Expected Results: Show reminder when I got home
Actual Results: Did not show
Feedback: I went into Cortana Settings, reminders and it was there. As soon as I clicked on reminder announced on phone. I had been home about 10 minutes.

 

[spacepost]

Region/Language: US English
Exact Phrase Spoken: Wake me up at 7:15 on weekdays
Did Cortana parse this correctly: yes
Expected Results: Alarm set for 7:15 repeating on M,T,W,Th,F
Actual Results: Alarm set for 7:15 the next morning, no repeat.
Feedback:

 

[jlangner]

Region/Language: US English
Exact Phrase Spoken: Play We Dem Boyzz
Did Cortana parse this correctly: yes
Expected Results: Play the song we dem boyz
Actual Results: Bing search.
Feedback:

 

[Justin Engel]

I want an option to change the volume

Region/Language: USA English
Exact Phrase Spoken:

• "Silence my phone"
• "Change my phone volume to 0"
• "Set ring volume to 0"

Did Cortana parse this correctly: Yes
Expected Results: Set my phone ring and notification volume to 0
Actual Results: It searched bing for something about ringing.
Feedback: I want to be able to set my phone volume to anything, ring/notification or media/app volume. It also reads "change to 0" as "change 20"

 

[Justin Engel]

Cortana doesn't always use contact information.

Region/Language: USA English
Exact Phrase Spoken: "How much traffic to Mariah's house?"
Did Cortana parse this correctly: No
Expected Results: Traffic to a contacts set home location
Actual Results: It searched the internet and found marias coffee house. Sometimes it just searched for Mariah Carey
Feedback: I should be able to ask about traffic to a contact's house that is in my inner circle. It also makes "Mariah" to "maria". I put "Mariah's House" in places too, and it still found marias coffee house. It only works if I set a Cortana Places location name as "marias house". It should first search for contact locations.

 

[Justin Engel]

Region/Language: USA English
Exact Phrase Spoken: "Wake me up for work tomorrow."
Did Cortana parse this correctly: Yes
Expected Results: Turn on my the alarm that is named "Work" or look at my calender and ask to set a reminder for the event titled "Work".
Actual Results: Brings up a list of my alarms. "Tap the alarm you want to change."
Feedback: Alarms have a name field set; Cortana should be able to use this information and turn on an alarm with the given name. The phrasing "Turn on my work alarm" does the same thing when it should turn on the alarm named "Work".

 

[leoniDAM]

Region/Language: US English
Exact Phrase Spoken:

give me direction to [appointment title]​

give me directions to next appointment​

Did Cortana parse this correctly: Yes
Expected Results: Should give the directions for the location of the next appointment or given appointment
Actual Results: try to make a new appointment
Feedback:

Region/Language: US English
Exact Phrase Spoken: tell me my next appointment
Did Cortana parse this correctly: Yes
Expected Results: If there isn't an appointment for the corrent day, should give the first appointment in the following day (could be sufficient if Cortana look at the next 7 days)
Actual Results: tell me that i haven't appointment
Feedback: would be usefull if i don't remember when i have the next appointment. I can ask for appointment for the entry week or the next 3 o 4 or whatever i want but in this way Cortana don't read the appointment but only show on the screen my schedule

 

[Reebs Reebs]

Region/Language: USA English
Exact Phrase Spoken: What's my name?
Did Cortana part this correctly: Yes
Expected Results: Cortana saying "Reebs Reebs"
Actual Results: Cortana searches the web for "What's my name" picking up a song
Feedback: Cortana learned my name and how to say it. Seems intuitive for her to "understand" what I'm asking.

 

[Reebs Reebs]

Region/Language: USA English
Exact Phrase Spoken: Remind me to call my wife in 5 minutes
Did Cortana part this correctly: Yes
Expected Results: reminder to know my "Wife's name and contact" given that wife is a listed nickname and is picked up correctly when asking Cortana to Call my wife.
Actual Results: Cortana saves a simple/passive reminder to "call my wife".
Feedback: Reminder should be interactive and smart. Having a link I press to open the phone and call directly from the reminder. Same applies to calling/texting person x/y/z from my phone book.

 

[Reebs Reebs]

Region/Language: USA English
Exact Phrase Spoken: Remind me to call the French Embassy in DS tomorrow at 10AM
Did Cortana part this correctly: Yes
Expected Results: Given that the French Embassy's contact info is not in my phone book, I expect Cortana to have found the phone number and suggested it in the reminder.
Actual Results: Cortana saves a simple/passive reminder to "call French Embassy".
Feedback: Cortana should anticipate my next step of finding the number and recommending it.

 

[Akash Patel]

Region/Language: English(US) living in India/English(US)
Exact Phrase Spoken: What's the weather right now?
Did Cortana parse this correctly:Yes
Expected Results: Show me the weather
Actual Results: Cortana do a bing search
Feedback: Yesterday it was working perfectly but today it always give me bing search.

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[Reebs Reebs]

Last one for today:

This is a 2 step-request.

Region/Language: USA English
Exact Phrase Spoken:
1st question: How's the traffic tot work?
Did Cortana part this correctly: Yes. Responded with: "Traffic is crawling, it will take x minutes to get there"
2nd question: find an alternative route
Did Cortana part this correctly: Yes.
Expected Results: Cortana to compute an alternative route or recommend a few
Actual Results: Cortana searches Bing for "Alternative Routes"
Feedback: This might be part of a larger project to link these results to the Mapping Application (Here Drive+ in my case). Also, for me, Cortana doesn't know my commute drive. Nor does Here Drive+. So maybe the challenge is huge.

 

[osoalex]

Region/Language: English, USA.
Exact Phrase Spoken: "How do you say 'how are you' in Spanish?"
Did Cortana parse this correctly: No.
Expected Results: ?C?mo est?s?
Actual Results: Bing search for "How do you say 'how are you' in Spanish?"
Feedback:
If there's no way to integrate translations in Cortana, maybe she can open Bing Translator (if installed) and detect the two languages to get the work done.

 

[osoalex]

Region/Language: English, USA.
Exact Phrase Spoken: "Convert one Euro to Uruguayan Pesos"
Did Cortana parse this correctly: No.
Expected Results: Exchange rate for 1€ to UYU.
Actual Results: Bing search for "convert €1 to do and places"
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