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

[Romer Reyes]

Region/Language: EN-US

Exact Phrase Spoken: Play Twenty Years From Now
Did Cortana parse this correctly: Cortana did parse it like this "Play 20 Years From Now"
Expected Results: Play the song
Actual Results: Did a web search
Feedback: It would be nice if Cortana recognizes word numbers from plain numbers.


Exact Phrase Spoken: Delete all my alarms
Did Cortana parse this correctly: Yes
Expected Results: Would delete all my alarms
Actual Results: Did a web search
Feedback: She must learn how to delete items.


Exact Phrase Spoken: Cancel my next reminder
Did Cortana parse this correctly: Yes
Expected Results: Would cancel the next reminder as seen on my Calendar Tile
Actual Results: Did a web search
Feedback: She must learn to do this basic thing.

And most of all, Cortana should improve her natural language. Like if we ask the questions what, where, when, etc. on her, she should response to us with a voice. Not a web result

 

[Romer Reyes]

Region/Language: EN-US
Exact Phrase Spoken: Define Gravity (or other words)
Did Cortana parse this correctly: Yes
Expected Results: Read me the definition from Bing.
Actual Results: Only a definition from a Bing search.
Feedback: Cortana would be great if it will read what's the meaning of a word.

 

[Lumiamike]

Region/Language: United States / English (United States)
Exact Phrase Spoken: Tell me a joke ( In English Uk pronunciation not US )
Did Cortana part this correctly: No
Expected Results: a Joke
Actual Results: Text to ?? was offered by Cortana
Feedback: Cortana did not once understand the word " Tell " at all, i tried multiple different questions all starting with the word " Tell " and each time Cortana tried to create a text to the nearest contact it thought matched the question, i tried to say the " Tell " with an American bent to my voice but still Cortana tried to start a text message

 

[James8561]

Region/Language: US English
Exact Phrase Spoken: When is sunset? ; What time is sunset? ; sunset today
Did Cortana parse this correctly: yes, all.
Expected Results: Time of sunset spoken from weather sources.
Actual Results: Bing search ; brings up the hourly temperature report
Feedback: It would be nice if Cortana can tell you the sunset and sunrise times.

 

[James8561]

Region/Language: US English
Exact phrase spoken: Play ____ playlist shuffle
Did Cortana parse this correctly? Yes
Expected result: Cortana plays named playlist and turn on shuffle
Actual result: Bing search
Feedback: Cortana should be able to shuffle and repeat a playlist. Also, Cortana previous track command doesn't work. She repeats current track instead of playing previous track

 

[meddyrainzo]

Region/Language: US/English US
Exact Phrase Spoken: "Did Chelsea win the game today."
Did Cortana parse this correctly: Yes
Expected results: Results of Chelsea's game
Actual Results: Bing search
Feedback: Cortana needs to be expanded to other sports

Same happened when I asked for Chelsea fixtures.

Chelsea here is Chelsea football club

 

[TechAbstract]

Region/Language: US/English US
Exact Phrase Spoken: "Who is the commissioner of the nba"
Did Cortana parse this correctly: No
Expected results: Adam Silver
Actual Results: David Stern
Feedback: David Stern already retired 3 months ago. Bing is still using old result.

 

[jhoff80]

Region/Language: US/English US
Exact Phrase Spoken: What's the weather in cambridge
Did Cortana parse this correctly: Yes
Expected results: I live in Massachusetts. I would expect that the phone knows my location and finds the nearest city named Cambridge, which in this case would be Cambridge, MA, literally 2 miles away.
Actual Results: Weather for Cambridge, Canada.
Feedback: Not even sure how it's deciding which to use since Cambridge UK would almost definitely be larger and more famous.



Region/Language: US/English US

Exact Phrase Spoken: What's the weather in middletown

Did Cortana parse this correctly: Yes

Expected results: There are many towns named Middletown. I'd expect to get results for at least one of them.

Actual Results: Bing search

 

[girishN]

Region/Language: US/English US
Exact Phrase Spoken: Turn on Wi-Fi every time I arrive home
Did Cortana part this correctly: yes
Expected Results: switch Wi-Fi on every time I arrive at home
Actual Results: asked me to set a reminder "Turn on Wi-Fi" when I get to home

Feedback: Cortana's location based reminders are great and they work well, but It'll be great if it can trigger some phone actions too, Like "turn ringer off every time I get to college". It's really easy to miss a reminder as it doesn't vibrate.

 

[Joe920]

Region/Language: US/US
Exact Phrase Spoken: "Remember that this is where I parked", "Remember that I'm parked here", etc
Did Cortana parse this correctly: Yes
Expected Results: Cortana would store the GPS location, available for retrieval later by asking "Where did I park?"
Actual Results: "When would you like to be reminded?" (and no GPS info stored)

Feedback: Parking info is more of a "remember" thing than a "remind me exactly at time so and so" thing. Ideally I could just say "I parked here". Cortana could say "Great, hold on while I wait a few seconds for better GPS accuracy... OK, got it, you parked here (shows map with pin). I that correct?". If I answer 'no' there should be an option to manually move the pin. If she can't get accurate GPS, she could say "I can't seem to get a good GPS signal, would you like to tell me details about your parking spot? You can say 'I parked in spot A4' or 'I parked at the curb near the stop sign'." Later I could say "where did I park", and she would tell me "Last Friday you said you parked here: (shows map plus my current location)"

Even cooler: if Cortana would detect 'car type speeds' and prolonged non-car speeds, she could silently keep track of possible parking spots (stored on-device only please..). She could then supplement a conversation as follows: "Last Friday you parked here: (map). Is that it?" (me: no) "OK, most recently it looks like you might have parked close to this spot: (map with last location just before prolonged period with non-car speeds)."

More generally, telling Cortana to remember something should always trigger info storage + a way to retrieve. It may be stored in a 'notes' book, but I don't want to say "make a note that I left my tablet at my sister's house" but rather "remember that I left my tablet at my sister's house". Later question "Where did I leave my tablet?", "where's my tablet?". This info could maybe be stored in a separate notebook section.

 

[Talderon]

[NOTE]Thanks again everyone!!!

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[anseld1986]

Region/Language: USA - English
Exact Phrase Spoken: "Whenever I am at home deactivate my pincode."
Did Cortana parse this correctly: yes
Expected Results: Upon arriving home, Cortana would turn the security pin-code on my phone off. Upon leaving the house, Cortana would turn the code back on.
Actual Results: bing search
Feedback: One of the biggest things that I would like Cortana to do is automate tasks for me. When I was using webOS back in the day, there was an app called "Mode Switcher" that allowed you to set triggers to make events happen (and I think Nokia used to have something called "Situations" that was very similar). For example, when I was at home (determined by being connected to a specific wifi-network or GPS location) my phone would turn off it's security settings so I didn't have to type it in everytime I used it (since I was clearly the only person at my house) - when I left, it would turn the security settings back on. The phone also knew to turn the equivalent of "Quiet Hours" on ONLY when I was at home - if I was out with friends I didn't want to have everything silenced just because it was 11PM. It allowed the phone to be much 'smarter.'


Region/Language: USA - English
Exact Phrase Spoken: "Cortana what's the speed limit here?"
Did Cortana parse this correctly: yes
Expected Results: "The speed limit is 70 miles per hour. You are currently traveling at 69 miles per hour."
Actual Results: bing search
Feedback: I was driving on a road yesterday and wondered what the speed limit was since I hadn't seen a sign lately, then thought I'd see if Cortana could tell me. Sadly, she wasn't able to. Yet. *grin

 

[Siah1214]

Region/Language: USA - English
Exact Phrase Spoken: "Cortana, don't forget that I left my keys on the nightstand"
Did Cortana parse this correctly: yes
Actual results: Offers to set up reminder at specified date and time.
Expected Results: Later, when I can't remember where I left my keys, I could ask Cortana "Hey, where did I leave my keys?" she'd respond with "On the nightstand"
Feedback: It would be nice if Cortana could remember things that are triggered only when I ask her. Sometimes it doesn't make sense for there to be date/location triggers, when I could want to know where my keys are at any given time.

 

[teemulehtinen]

Region/Language: USA - English
Exact Phrase Spoken: "Add the flight details from my email to the calendar"
Did Cortana parse this correctly: yes
Actual results: Answers speaking: "alright, when's the event?".
Expected Results: Go through my email, pick the reserve confirmation email sent to me two hours ago with the reservation number, flight numbers, times of flight and add these to the calendar with a reminder.
Feedback: Seems to me that Cortana does not go through my emails. Is there a way to teach her to do it?

 

[realwarder]

Region/Language: USA - English
Exact Phrase Spoken: "Display <name> contact details"
Exact Phrase Spoken: "Show me <name>"
Exact Phrase Spoken: "Show <name>"
Exact Phrase Spoken: "What is <name>'s address?"
Did Cortana parse this correctly: yes
Actual results: web results
Expected Results: show <name> contact details
Feedback: There needs to be a way to show a person's contact details quickly. Then as a follow up, permit call/navigate/text etc.

 

[realwarder]

Region/Language: USA - English
Exact Phrase Spoken: "What is <name>'s telephone number?"
Did Cortana parse this correctly: yes
Actual results: a screen showing "Here's some information that might help", but with Blank contents.
Expected Results: show <name> Telephone number
Feedback:

 

[realwarder]

Region/Language: USA - English
Exact Phrase Spoken: "Show me DL1 flight status"
Did Cortana parse this correctly: kind of - she shows "Show me DL one flight status"
Actual results: web results
Expected Results: flight status
Feedback: Note that if I manually correct "DL one" to "DL1" then she shows the flight status.

 

[realwarder]

Region/Language: USA - English
Exact Phrase Spoken: "Show me DL37 flight status" followed by "When does it arrive?"
Did Cortana parse this correctly: Yes, then yes
Actual results: Correct flight display, reading out departure time but not then the arrival - got search results
Expected Results: trying to get the scheduled arrival time for a flight
Feedback: When talking about a flight, follow up questions like "Has it left", "Is it delayed", "When will it arrive" are appropriate

 

[DalekSnare]

Region/Language: US/En
Exact Phrase Spoken: How do I get to [contact name]'s house?
Did Cortana parse this correctly: Yes
Expected Results: Bring up the home address of the contact
Actual Results: Bing search
Feedback:

 

[Julian Diaz1]

Region/Language: US/En and US/Es
Exact Phrase Spoken: Remind me to deliver the english homework when i get to the college
Did Cortana parse this correctly: Yes
Expected Results: Set a geofence reminder, reminding me to deliver the english homework when i get to the college
Actual Results: Works perfect if my configuration is: Language (English) and Regi?n (US), not even display the reminder if the configuration is: Language (English) and Regi?n (Argentina).:unhappysweat:
Feedback: I just wanna know if this is a bug or is some restrictions in my regi?n about location and other services related, i set my actual regi?n to have the wheather in Celsius.