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Just wanted to share my disappointment (with many of you I'm sure) at the news Cortana will go into beta only in the US to begin with. Here's hoping she'll make her way to the rest of us really soon!
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Just wanted to share my disappointment (with many of you I'm sure) at the news Cortana will go into beta only in the US to begin with. Here's hoping she'll make her way to the rest of us really soon!
Well AFAIK it's only a backend update that's needed to enable the extra functions, I assume launching apps and performing searches will work just fine, as Cortana essentially replaces Bing on the search button.
They just don't care about us dude. It's just US, **** the rest. At least that's how it feels. Perhaps rest of world should also stop to care about them, 16% market share in Italy, about 10% in UK, about 8% in Germany. And USA? 2-3%? Its their home market, but ONLY US? At least bring 2-3 features to the others like google started with google now. Or do it correct like apple did it with siri.
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Are you sure about that? I'm kind of wondering how MS is planning to roll out 8.1 for non-cortana countries. Do we keep the tell-me feature for now? Do we get to see cortana when we search for stuff, do we just keep using bing like it used to work?
I'm a bit worried to be honest by how much effor they put into cortana, revealing all those awesome features that just might not be available in other countries (quiet hours, daily glance, music identification...) They've gone a long way to integrate cortana into the entire OS, a lack of this feature might just cripple the OS quite a bit. (Skype integration is probably not going to happen without cortana...)
In fact it's sensible for a beta to be tested with 2-3% of users than 10%. It means that the rest of the world will get a fully functioning version instead.
Just wanted to share my disappointment (with many of you I'm sure) at the news Cortana will go into beta only in the US to begin with. Here's hoping she'll make her way to the rest of us really soon!
In fact it's sensible for a beta to be tested with 2-3% of users than 10%. It means that the rest of the world will get a fully functioning version instead.
This move is akin to Kinect voice commands when Kinect first came out. I was privileged enough to be part of the Kinect Beta. They needed to ensure that other countries would get a good experience before rolling it out.
A lot of people complained why Kinect voice commands were limited to US initially, even though they belonged to different countries but spoke english. But the truth is, even the slightest accent caused problems with the hardware recognizing a command.
They're rolling it out as a beta in the US to ensure that it learns and they learn how to make it work for other languages and gradually, as the service improves, it will be rolled out.
How well did Kinect voice work in the Beta version? I think US would actually be difficult, due to all the different regional accents/dialects.This move is akin to Kinect voice commands when Kinect first came out. I was privileged enough to be part of the Kinect Beta and a lot of people complained why Kinect voice commands were limited to US initially, even though they belonged to different countries but spoke english.
But the truth is, even the slightest accent caused problems with the hardware recognizing a command. They needed to ensure that other countries would get a good experience before rolling it out. So i'm pretty sure they're rolling it out as a beta in the US first to ensure that it learns and MS too learns how to make it work for other languages and gradually, as the service improves, it will be rolled out a bit at a time to other countries and/or languages.
This move is akin to Kinect voice commands when Kinect first came out. I was privileged enough to be part of the Kinect Beta and a lot of people complained why Kinect voice commands were limited to US initially, even though they belonged to different countries but spoke english.
But the truth is, even the slightest accent caused problems with the hardware recognizing a command. They needed to ensure that other countries would get a good experience before rolling it out. So i'm pretty sure they're rolling it out as a beta in the US first to ensure that it learns and MS too learns how to make it work for other languages and gradually, as the service improves, it will be rolled out a bit at a time to other countries and/or languages.
How well did Kinect voice work in the Beta version? I think US would actually be difficult, due to all the different regional accents/dialects.
Maybe because I am US but it makes sense to release a Beta version in a smaller market vs running the risk of angering/frustrating your larger user base if Cortana is buggy or there are issues.
Now within 6-8 months(aka the rest of 2014) if they have not released it to other countries besides Uk, there will be an issue.
Question...Does Siri/Google Now work in other countries that don't use English as a first language? Like do they speak in the country's native language?