Ideas to improve Cortana

[Joe920]

In the 'natural queries' section I suggested that Cortana could auto-detect where you parked by tracking your position and speed. Turns out Google just implemented this. So yes, please add this to Cortana's capabilities as well.
Google Now Adds Parking Detection, Manages Your Custom Nicknames

 

[SpaceyO]

In the 'natural queries' section I suggested that Cortana could auto-detect where you parked by tracking your position and speed. Turns out Google just implemented this. So yes, please add this to Cortana's capabilities as well.
Google Now Adds Parking Detection, Manages Your Custom Nicknames

That's been part of HERE Drive for about 6 months now.

 

[Joe920]

That's been part of HERE Drive for about 6 months now.

Link please? If so, being able to ask Cortana for that info would be good.

 

[SpaceyO]

Link please? If so, being able to ask Cortana for that info would be good.

Find my car - hands on with HERE Drive's new feature | Windows Phone Central

I don't think Cortana will be able to help you in this situation...at least not until (or unless) HERE Drive/Maps gets more (deeper) integration with Cortana.

 

[Joe920]

Find my car - hands on with HERE Drive's new feature | Windows Phone Central

I don't think Cortana will be able to help you in this situation...at least not until (or unless) HERE Drive/Maps gets more (deeper) integration with Cortana.

Thanks for the link. The big difference of Google's implementation with the one in Here drive is that it doesn't require you to use navigation. On Android it will remember where you stopped moving as long as you have location services enabled, which is exactly what I wanted Cortana to do (but no, I'm not getting an Android phone).

 

[edoug]

Support for email would be great, directions but contact name too! Not being able to navigate by contact name has driven me crazy since day one

 

[Reflexx]

How about if we could share preferences with selected users? Or certain preferences?

Like maybe I'd let all my friends know what my favorite games and songs are. Not like I'm explicitly fishing for a birthday gift... but let Cortana share it with their Cortana. So if my friend's birthday is coming up, and he has his Cortana sharing certain games preferences with my Cortanta... then my Cortana could make recommendations based on parameters I set.

 

[barbaram]

I would like her to be able to open her own notes in One Note. I could create a note "authors I like" then when I finish a book I could say, "add Dr Suess to note authors I like" and she would add the name to my list.

 

[Joe920]

I think I'm obsessed. Today I walked into the supermarket and I thought I saw this:

 

[Joe920]

By the way, now that we have a uservoice section dedicated to all things Cortana, I guess it would be better to make suggestions there:

Cortana Feedback

 

[bbobeckyj]

Cortana can already turn quiet hours on and off for calendar events that you're marked as "busy".

Thanks, but I gave a poor example. "When next my next appointment starts/ends, turn on/off airplane mode/send a text/turn on/off Bluetooth..."

 

[anon(8555314)]

I would like to be able to define street nicknames. When speaking, I almost always use these without thinking about it, and Cortana never knows what I am talking about.
I wish I could:

Define Williamson Street as "Willy Street"
Define East Washington Ave as "East Wash"

 

[jleebiker]

First of all, I LOVE Quiet Hours. It has already saved me on at least one occasion where a ringtone of a contact would have been embarrassing.
Second, I LOVE how it automatically kicks in when I am marked Busy for a meeting.

That being said, I had setup a reminder via Cortana to remind me of something for a specific meeting. She confirmed it just fine when I made the reminder. When I had the meeting, Quiet Hours had kicked in and it prevented Cortana from reminding me. She reminded as soon as the meeting was over and I had forgotten to bring it up. Oh well, lesson learned.

So my question is, how do I setup a reminder to remind me of something for a meeting when the meeting will be flagged Quiet Hours? Thanks!

 

[Rhody#WP]

I would like to give phonetic hints to help Cortana pronounce names in my contacts.

 

[Reflexx]

I want to ask Cortana to restrict searches to a specific time frame.

"NBA 2k14 locker codes within the last two weeks"

 

[Joe920]

I hope they can figure out why Cortana sometimes goes absolutely nuts. I just asked "What time is sunset" and I can see that she heard it right, but the response was "Playing your playlist 'Soundtrack'", followed by her playing the track "Baby, I'm a star". She may be a star, but sometimes she's not particularly helpful.

Trying the exact same request again (after stopping the music..), she responded "You just need to unlock your phone first", followed by a Bing search for the phrase "What time is sunset". Still not helpful, but better than playing a random song I guess.

 

[seabasstheSwordsman]

- Needs to work without location. If I'm asking for it to play music, I don't need location to play music.
- If I need to do something that requires location, ask me if I want to turn it on.

 

[DiamondObama]

Can anyone tell if you would like Cortana to be listening right from the first time you press search to opening, and not to wait to press the mic button? I would love to...

Press and hold the button

 

[ljharper]

This is probably more OS-related than specifically Cortana, but I wish she had independent volume control. I was very glad to see the separate volume control for Ringer/Notifications vs Media/Apps, because I like calls and notifications to be pretty loud, but I prefer keeping app sounds turned down low. Unfortunately I quickly realized I can't hear Cortana talking most of the time, and so now I'm still turning volume up and down all the time like I had to before.

 

[smoledman]

Needs to have the ability to create an Alarm on a specific day.