I was thinking tonight when listening to some music on my tablet that It will be nice to have the "hey Cortana" feature on all of our devices. Then I got to thinking a bit deeper. I have two desktop computers in the house, both within 15-20 feet from each other. One is a Media PC hooked up to my living room TV, the other is my work / play machine. I also have my Windows phone, and my tablet. Now.... The problem I forsee would roll out like this.
Say I am listening to music on my media PC, browsing the web on my tablet, while having my phone in my pocket. Say a song I do not want to listen to at the time comes on and I look up and say "hey Cortana, play the next track" Well.... you can probably see where this is going. All of the devices within listening range would suddenly wake up and Cortana would be everywhere. I know the feature can be turned off, but I am thinking it would be nice to have on all the devices for different reasons.
I wonder if it would be easier to give Cortana an option to add an additional word to activate that is user changeable for example "hey Cortana (media), (tablet)" etc. So you are triggering Cortana on the proper device.
Say I am listening to music on my media PC, browsing the web on my tablet, while having my phone in my pocket. Say a song I do not want to listen to at the time comes on and I look up and say "hey Cortana, play the next track" Well.... you can probably see where this is going. All of the devices within listening range would suddenly wake up and Cortana would be everywhere. I know the feature can be turned off, but I am thinking it would be nice to have on all the devices for different reasons.
I wonder if it would be easier to give Cortana an option to add an additional word to activate that is user changeable for example "hey Cortana (media), (tablet)" etc. So you are triggering Cortana on the proper device.