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

[realwarder]

Region/Language: English (USA)
Exact Phrase Spoken: Who is my wife?
Did Cortana parse this correctly: yes
Expected Results: <Wife contact name>
Actual Results: Bing search
Feedback: Show contacts for Nicknamed people

 

[mildmanneredjanitor]

Region/Language: Uk
Exact Phrase Spoken: Read me xxx
Did Cortana parse this correctly: No
Expected Results: Cortana to read out loud to me the information requested
Actual Results: Bing searches
Feedback: The single most important change needed. Cortana needs to be able to serve up information in spoken form. Read me the Times headlines. Read to me about xxx. Read me a poem. Tell me what birthdays are coming up this week. Read me the Obama speech. Read me that webpage (context sensitive). Also, I need my headphones button to activate Cortana so I can have a PRIVATE conversation!

 

[realwarder]

Region/Language: English (USA)
Exact Phrase Spoken: Show me directions to Walmart
Did Cortana parse this correctly: yes
Expected Results: directions to walmart
Actual Results: A list of Walmart, which is good. She then asks "which do I want", from a list like this:

1. Walmart Superstore, address aaa
2. Walmart Superstore, address bbb
3. Walmart Superstore, address ccc

However the issue then comes next.

Exact Phrase Spoken: 1 (one - in response to which do I want)
Did Cortana parse this correctly: yes
Expected Results: directions to Walmart aaa
Actual Results: Bing search results for "One"
Feedback: a numbered list and the question "which do you want" should enable the numbers to be used to select the item.

 

[Reebs Reebs]

Region/Language: English (USA)
Exact Phrase Spoken: Are you on Twitter? or Are you on Facebook? or Are you on social media?
Did Cortana parse this correctly: yes
Expected Results: Yes! Wana be friends? or Yes! Wana follow me? Or Yes, I'm on Twitter and Facebook! Follow me?
Actual Results: Bing search
Feedback: Should also be smart enough to open its page on Facebook (app or webpage) to follow her or open the Twitter app with her page.... After all, she said she's Facebook friends with Clippy!

 

[riot9]

Region/Language: US / English
Exact Phrase Spoken: Text my wife and ask her how the kids are
Did Cortana part this correctly: Yes
Expected Results: A text to my wife that says "how are the kids?"
Actual Results: A text to my wife that says "And ask her how the kids are"
Feedback: The reason I expected this to work is "text my wife and tell her it'll be a late night" results in a text to my wife that says "it'll be a late night"

 

[Akash Patel]

Region/Language: English(US) living in India/English(US)
Exact Phrase Spoken: Where am i
Did Cortana parse this correctly:Yes
Expected Results: Show me my current location
Actual Results: Cortana shows me my location correctly
Feedback: N/a

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[riot9]

Region/Language: US / English
Exact Phrase Spoken: Remind me to email Dan twenty minutes after I get to work
Did Cortana part this correctly: Yes
Expected Results: A reminder to fire roughly twenty minutes after I get to work
Actual Results: A reminder to email Dan when I get to work
Feedback: In the case of reminders for when I get to work, it's rare that I want to have a reminder the moment I get there. I need to settle in, get my day planned out. It's also likely that I wouldn't be able to even hear the reminder if it fired while I'm in the car still, or climbing stairs talking to someone.

 

[iyae]

Region/Language: US / English
Exact Phrase Spoken: Call 08xxxxxxxxx
Did Cortana part this correctly: Yes
Expected Results: To dial the number I read out
Actual Results: Asked me to pick a contact to call
Feedback: This should be straightforward and she failed. It works randomly, the problem seems to be that Cortana adds a period to the end sometimes and that's when it doesn't work

 

[Kaushik Dash]

Region/Language: English, USA. I live in India though
Exact Phrase Spoken: Turn on/off all alartms
Did Cortana parse this correctly: Yes
Expected Results: To turn on/off all alarms.
Actual Results: Sometimes it asks which alarm to turn on/off, somtimes it gives bing search results
Screenshot:

Region/Language: English, USA. I live in India though
Exact Phrase Spoken: end
Did Cortana parse this correctly: Nope
Expected Results: To parse end
Actual Results: And.
I tried various ways to make it understand end, but it always took it for and.
Screenshot:

Region/Language: English, USA. I live in India though
Exact Phrase Spoken: When did the <TV series> name start/end?
Did Cortana parse this correctly: Yes
Expected Results: To tell me the dates
Actual Results: Showed the dates in bing but didn't tell them.
Screenshot:

Region/Language: English, USA. I live in India though
Exact Phrase Spoken: When and at what time does <TV series> air
Did Cortana parse this correctly: Yes
Expected Results: To tell me the day and time of the show
Actual Results: Bing search result without any information on the question (just links)
Screenshot:

Region/Language: English, USA. I live in India though
Exact Phrase Spoken: Where is the nearest theatre playing <movie name>?, Where can I watch <movie name> near me?.
Did Cortana parse this correctly: Yes
Expected Results: To tell me where I can watch the said movie (with theatre name and timings) and then ask me if I would like to set the timing in my reminders
Actual Results: Bing search result with links
It could be an issue with me being in India but if it doesn't work in USA either, it can be a great feature!
Screenshot:


Region/Language: English, USA. I live in India though
Exact Phrase Spoken: When is the next episode of (show name), when does <showname> air next, when is the next <showname> episode
Did Cortana parse this correctly: Yes
Expected Results: To tell me the date and time of the next episode of the show name and then ask me if i would like to have a reminder set
Actual Results: Bing search result without any information on the question (just links)
Screenshot:


Region/Language: English, USA. I live in India though
Exact Phrase Spoken: Where am I?
Did Cortana parse this correctly: Yes
Expected Results: To tell me my location
Actual Results: Told my location but when I asked to send it to my father, it opened Here Drive+ for directions
I wanted it to send my location to my father
Screenshot:


Region/Language: English, USA. I live in India though
Exact Phrase Spoken: How will the temperature be tonight? How will the weather be tonight? What will be the temperature tonight?
Did Cortana parse this correctly: Yes
Expected Results: To tell me the information of tonight
Actual Results: Told me the weather of the whole day without any information of night
Screenshot:


Region/Language: English, USA. I live in India though
Exact Phrase Spoken: What are all the tasks for today, do I have anything to do today?
Did Cortana parse this correctly: Yes
Expected Results: To tell me my tasks/events/reminders for today
Actual Results: Bing search.
Also, I would like to be verbally able to cancel/complete any task by saying words such as cancel/complete/cancel it/complete it/I have completed it
Screenshot:

 

[Justin Engel]

Custom Reminder settings

Region/Language: USA English
Exact Phrase Spoken: "When I ask how do I login to work tell me go to domainname.com"
Did Cortana parse this correctly: No
Expected Results: Create a custom reminder that is connected to the phrase "How do I login to work?", so when I ask "How do I login to work?" cortana should respond "go to domainname.com".
Actual Results: It searched the internet, and it doesn't parse dot as a "."
Feedback:

• I want to create custom reminders or responses for a given phrase/question. These reminders are not associated to time or place.
• Another nice feature would be to change a location reminder when it goes off to a snooze time reminder. So when I get to a location it will remind me to do something, but I can hit snooze. It will then remind me in 5 or 10 min, so I have time to get out of my car and in the building.

 

[Reebs Reebs]

Region/Language: USA English
Exact Phrase Spoken: "Call my wife using Skype"
Did Cortana parse this correctly: Yes
Expected Results: Same result as "Call wife using Skype" which is open Skype and call my wife
Actual Results: Doesn't recognize "My Wife" as "Wife". Understand that I want to call someone using Skype and asks me "Who do you want to call"
Feedback: I nickname my wife with wife. Cortana understands this when making a regular call. It's enough to say call my wife. For calling using Skype, it doesn't work and the alias has to be used as define: wife.

 

[arrow22]

Region/Language: US English
Exact Phrase Spoken: "Cortana, call [contact's first name]"
Did Cortana parse this correctly: No.
Expected Results: Upon not finding a correct contact, give the user the option to select manually and ask to correct her prononciation of the name.
Actual Results: Cortana couldn't figure out the contact, no way to get her to learn the correct pronunciation of the name
Feedback: Build a mechanism that allows contact name pronunciation to be defined by the user.

BTW, Cortana does not understand the terms "Fianc?e/Fianc?" the same way it does for girlfriend/boyfriend and wife/husband. I've only got a year to use the term, so it'd be great to be able to get that fixed before then

 

[Talderon]

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Thanks all!

 

[venkatm]

Region/Language: US English

Exact Phrase Spoken:
1. What is the weather like (Shows weather in Palo Alto)
2. How about in San Jose (Shows weather in San Jose)
3. Show that in Celsius (Shows Palo Atlo weather in Celsius)

Did Cortana parse this correctly: No

Expected Results: Expected weather in Celsius from the second city.

Actual Results: Cortana showed the weather of the first city in Celsius.

Feedback: Cortana remembers the context. But she should be intelligent enough to change the context when necessary (second city in this instance).

 

[Reebs Reebs]

Region/Language: US English
Exact Phrase Spoken: Text my wife using Skype
Did Cortana parse this correctly: yes
Expected Results: ask me about the message and send it via Skype, like she would call her via skype
Actual Results: prepares to send an SMS to my wife with the content of "Using Skype"
Feedback: Eventually support for outside of SMS has to come to Skype and others, hopefully WhatsApp and Viber. But Skype sets the example

 

[Reebs Reebs]

Region/Language: US English
Exact Phrase Spoken: Play Marketplace Podcast or Play Podcast Marketplace
Did Cortana parse this correctly: yes
Expected Results: Open the MS Podcast application and play the Podcast called Marketplace
Actual Results: Bing Search
Feedback: It isn't integrated with Podcast yet like it is with Xbox Music. On the other hand, I can say "Open Podcast" and the app will launch, but that's nothing too special

 

[Jagannath Timma]

Region/Language: US english
Exact Phrase Spoken: compose new email/write a new email
Did Cortana part this correctly: yes
Expected Results: should compose email
Actual Results: bing search
Feedback:

 

[James8561]

Region/Language: USA/English
Exact Phrase Spoken: "Text [name] and [name]"
Did Cortana parse this correctly: yes!
Expected Results: a group text (MMS) to those 2 people
Actual Results: a normal (SMS) text to the first person with "and [name]" as the message
Feedback: please add the ability to send group text to multiple people in Cortana.

 

[Oliverspin]

Region/Language: USA English
Exact phrase spoken: Take me to Soquel, California.
Did Cortana part this correctly: No (registers "so cal" instead of Soquel)
Expected results: Navigate me to the place.
Actual results: Could not register the name correctly.
Feedback: This will improve with time, but a larger bank of words and better software would solve my issue.

 

[FrodoBaggins]

Region/Language: US English
Exact Phrase Spoken: Add John to my inner circle
Did Cortana parse this correctly: yes
Expected Results: Cortana would add John to the inner circle
Actual Results: Bing Search
Feedback: Cortana should be able to add to the inner circle of contacts.