tellme for non-US users?

[psgenious]

as we know that cortana is not initially present in non-US countries. so will there be Tellme for them?
or they will lost the voice assistent for cortana to come?

 

[ven07]

Hey what is "Tell me" exactly? Isn't that just Cortana?

 

[Adriaan NL]

Hey what is "Tell me" exactly? Isn't that just Cortana?

TellMe is the current software, though no one uses that name anymore. The name TellMe is not so catchy either.

Edit:
TellMe versus Siri, the difference is results - The Next Web

This nice article writes about TellMe and also embeds a very bad/funny/interesting promo.

 

[Kacey Green]

TellMe is the current software, though no one uses that name anymore. TellMe is a sucky name too.

that's the name of the company they bought to get the feature, that's why on some versions it said powered by TellMe, it was on the landlines and several other places too, I think on WP it's a small subset of what the tech is currently equipped to handle.

 

[Rem97]

To answer the OP's question, yeah. For non US users, Tellme will be launched when the search button is held.

 

[ven07]

TellMe is the current software, though no one uses that name anymore. TellMe is a sucky name too.

Oh yea... I used it in the beginning, but got tired of the limited use of it.. However I do use it in the morning to launch my alarm app; just to turn it off lol
Doubt they will remove it though?

 

[rockstarzzz]

TellMe is the current software, though no one uses that name anymore. The name TellMe is not so catchy either.

TellMe could have been catchier than "Ok Google Now" if they used TellMe as a command i.e. TellMe my weather, TellMe my appointments, TellMe new notifications, TellMe a joke, TellMe a dirty story etc etc etc.

 

[ven07]

TellMe could have been catchier than "Ok Google Now" if they used TellMe as a command i.e. TellMe my weather, TellMe my appointments, TellMe new notifications, TellMe a joke, TellMe a dirty story etc etc etc.

Is it just me or does it actually feel like Nokia and MS never thought about a fully working virtual assistant in the beginning? lol

 

[rockstarzzz]

Is it just me or does it actually feel like Nokia and MS never thought about a fully working virtual assistant in the beginning? lol

In fact, Nokia was the first company ever who brought us speech to text on phones! But both these companies had a thing going for them and they felt no need to innovate further as they had steady cash coming in. But as the rule of universe, it isn't going to be a constant. They did bring us TellMe a little enhanced version from what Nokia had given the world, but still did only a little to entice the world. So Apple innovated on top of "stale" technologies and got Siri, Google as usual with ample of data it has been collected over a decade, walked in and gave us Google Now. That's when both these company woke up and thought of doing something real to fight these - Cortana.

 

[ven07]

In fact, Nokia was the first company ever who brought us speech to text on phones! But both these companies had a thing going for them and they felt no need to innovate further as they had steady cash coming in. But as the rule of universe, it isn't going to be a constant. They did bring us TellMe a little enhanced version from what Nokia had given the world, but still did only a little to entice the world. So Apple innovated on top of "stale" technologies and got Siri, Google as usual with ample of data it has been collected over a decade, walked in and gave us Google Now. That's when both these company woke up and thought of doing something real to fight these - Cortana.

Oh.. I always figured that the idea was stolen from MS (speech recognition for pc) and then reapplied for phones (iphone and android), but I didn't know that MS and Nokia were the first to apply this tech (although limited) to phones

 

[rockstarzzz]

Oh.. I always figured that the idea was stolen from MS (speech recognition for pc) and then reapplied for phones (iphone and android), but I didn't know that MS and Nokia were the first to apply this tech (although limited) to phones

I would say Nokia on its own was there for phones. Microsoft for PCs. Symbians had those command based voice recognition back in 2002-2003 I think! However, it wasn't as fun and casual as Cortana is today.

 

[ven07]

I would say Nokia on its own was there for phones. Microsoft for PCs. Symbians had those command based voice recognition back in 2002-2003 I think! However, it wasn't as fun and casual as Cortana is today.

Oh i never had a symbian and friends never used the voice assistant.. Lol they must have found the idea of talking to their phone weird? Whereas I can't wait to talk to mine lol

 

[Markham Ranja]

Oh.. I always figured that the idea was stolen from MS (speech recognition for pc) and then reapplied for phones (iphone and android), but I didn't know that MS and Nokia were the first to apply this tech (although limited) to phones

MS didn't do much for speech recognition back then , either. Most of the basic research in the field was military, DARPA-funded under the GALE program in the 1980s. A lot of work was done by SRI Labs and their spinoff STAR Labs too.

 

[ven07]

MS didn't do much for speech recognition back then , either. Most of the basic research in the field was military, DARPA-funded under the GALE program in the 1980s. A lot of work was done by SRI Labs and their spinoff STAR Labs too.

I started using voice recognition around the year 2000 i was about 14/15, found it exciting for a bit, but then dropped it.. Picked it up again two years ago with the whole "jarvis" revolution happening, but got tired of restarting or setting the macros over and over again so i dropped it again