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Xbox One Update Adds Cortana (theguardian.com)
Microsoft announced on Monday that its Xbox One console is due for a big software update this summer. Cortana, the digital voice assistant will be made available to Xbox One users, the company said. If you're part of the Xbox Preview program, you will be able to test the feature starting this week. The Guardian reports: To communicate, players simply have to say "hey Cortana" -- a sentence that Microsoft claims is easier for the system to pick up than the old "Xbox" prompt. Players won't need Kinect, as any Xbox One headset with a microphone will suffice. Players will also be able to ask Cortana what their friends are doing on Xbox, and it's possible to invite friends into a Party chat via Cortana voice controls.
Still not excited about talking to inanimate objects, when I know they don't need me to talk to them to do what they're supposed to do.
Chatbots, Cortana, "OK Google" ... it all just makes me feel like they think I'm an idiot.
Maybe it's a personality thing? Maybe the people who carry on whole conversations with their dogs and cats would also like to talk to their computer instead of pushing a button, and I'm just not one of those people? But it seems crazy to me that anybody would want to complicate their life in that way. Just point to the menu option and click it. No whispering sweet nothings into your computer is needed.
Breakfast served all day!
Hmm, I'm sure that most Xbox users are to dumb to understand that they now have a bug in their room.
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
Does the XBox process the commands, or are they sent to "The Cloud" for processing?
And it picks up on Cortana and starts doing random things..
Heeeey Abbott!
has been around since the '40s. Besides, HAY is for horses.
She's allowed to look at me naked only if she returns the favor.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
I think they finally gave up on that horse.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
I bought a new xboxOne some time ago. the thing is so deeply integrated with Bing it makes me sick.
Now they are adding Cortana, presumably so they can use her amazing data mining capabilities for some undisclosed reason. Since she is basically the strapon for Bing, they might as well go all in, instead of just the tip.
Looks like it is time to look for the microphone and pour superglue into it. Good luck listening to me then Microsoft.
The Canadian version will use "Cortana, eh?".
2+2 = 4. Microsoft will be monitoring all verbal communication. Get it yet? Everything you say, whether to Cortana or not, will be monitored by an A.I. that is capable of extracting meaning from your sentences and adding that intel to your profile, for marketing (and government spying) purposes.
And before you go all "I have nothing to hide" realize that the greater value in this is gaining superior insight into trends, which in turn allows the data-holders to practice a form of insider trading. To make it really simple...if a whole lot of people are talking about some new unreleased product, MS knows that it should start bidding to buy the company (or block it, make a competing product) right away...whereas most investors have to wait and see how the market treats it.
This is the new world. Get used to it.
Nothing like insulting a group of people while using incorrect grammar.
Back on subject, I think I might actually like this feature. I do not have connect for my Xbox One and I've found it a bit burdensome to navigate in order to create groups with my brother to start playing a game together.
Guess I'll find out soon enough.
"Action without philosophy is a lethal weapon; philosophy without action is worthless."
As far as we know, no Kinect and no headset = no microphone.
how exiting, I am thoroughly thrilled...
From a non-anonymous internet account.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Horse? What horse? I just see a giant lump of fur and maggots!
It's not law enforcement you should be worried about.
- Don't do what I do, it's probably not healthy nor safe. -
"Hey is for horses" is the common phrase used to indicate that "Hey" is a poor substitute for "Hello" and not to be used among the educated.
The phrase has nothing to do with what horses eat... silly AC.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
AC talks big shit.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
Maybe they're not high-level criminals, or mentally-ill, and are just normal people who want to play some games. Most people, including kooks like you, just aren't interesting to law-enforcement.
What if there was a technology that could tell you the population's precise reaction to, I dunno, a political speech?
A technology that only the people in power have access to, not the opposing parties.
The end of democracy?
It might be closer than you think.
No sig today...
Why would you ever buy Microsoft anything?
and the alternative is a Sony platform that gets hacked frequently, a steam platform that's DOA and various MS Windows based PC platforms that ride on top of more MS spyware?
Clearly you've thought this comment out.
And if you don't want it? This is not a required part of the gaming machine its what i would call Extras that should be left up to the customer to install and use if they so choose. we live in the age where the Big Software corp telling customer whats good for them and chose is taken away that's what i see.
Jack of all trades,master of none
Pervert! Looking at the source code of innocent programs!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Why not? Get them all worked up when you lay out your fiendish terrorist plans on how and where to plant your next bomb, only to end it "Oh crap, forget it folks, we're gonna be the counterterrorists in this match".
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
What democracy?
They should have an update that fixes the goddamn Master Chief Collection.
Could be worse. I'm surprised it's not "Hey Microsoft Cortana Tee Em..."
I mean, if these companies are going to make you feel like an idiot they may as well do a bit of marketing while they're at it.
Oh no, more Bing infestation
Will Cortana actually be useful on Xbox One? There's certainly potential, but if it's the same as Cortana on Win10, it'll just bring up Bing results of whatever is asked of it. Granted, due to lack of keyboard on XBOne, this is much more useful than on PC. But, I've got such a bad taste of Cortana from Win10, I'm a bit jaded. If Cortana could even just open default Windows apps, it might be useful... but so far the only thing that's been handy is asking the current temperature. Other than that, mistyped Bing searches, although sometimes entertaining, are for the most part useless.
Nothing like insulting a group of people while using incorrect grammar.
Back on subject, I think I might actually like this feature. I do not have connect for my Xbox One and I've found it a bit burdensome to navigate in order to create groups with my brother to start playing a game together.
Guess I'll find out soon enough.
Maybe you want to rethink what you just said.
When you use "Cortana" you do send all information to Microsoft's cloud where it can be used for who knows what. Don't believe me, well bring up your security settings for Windows 10 and look at what "Cortana" actually does. In addition, why don't you do a web search using something like "Cortana privacy concerns" or any phrase with "Cortana" and "privacy", then if you are happy with what that entails, "Be my guest".
I do have Windows 10 running on a virtual machine on my PC and I only run that virtual machine when I need to test things regarding Windows 10.
There ain't no such thing as proprietary standards only proprietary formats. Standards are by definition open.
One of my favorites with the "Xbox - " commands was a dude with gamertag "XboxSignout". He would then proceed to troll everyone in CoD, then as soon as they called out his name they'd inadvertently drop themselves from the game. Check it out here , there's also "XboxTurnOff" and a few others.
It might be a little trickier to weave "Hey Cortana" into a gamertag, but i'm sure someone somewhere is smart enough to figure it out, and someone else is dumb enough to fall for it.
Yes, because when I say, "Hey Cortana, start a chat party with Halo friends!" I'm super worried M$ is going to take that info and sell it away or send it to the gov or blackmail me. When I go, "Hey Cortana, search how to make a bomb and drop it on the White House." I don't think, "Fuck, hopefully M$ doesn't send my search request to the government." the government already knows thanks to Prism.
Hay is for Horses, but better for cows. "Hey is for Horses" just means you can only say, "hey" to horses and not people.
Sorta kinda serious with the subject line. We've been conditioned over the years to be very precise about our steps in working with computers, especially as techies, because we know the limitations. Well, these tools actually remove multiple steps and we aren't taking advantage of it.
For example, when I first tried using it I would say "OK Google, directions to 1234 Main Street, Anytown, USA 21222 - then put in my location, then click navigate. Now, I say "OK Google, navigate to home" and that's it. Or "OK Google, navigate to Chipotle" and it'll figure out the closest one on its own. Much easier and you don't have to worry about the details.
Another example, sometimes I like to sleep for a few extra minutes in the morning after getting ready, so my alarm changes. I'll say "OK Google, set alarm for 7" and I don't need to specific the day, "O'clock", AM or PM, or how often the alarm goes off, the default behavior is setting a one-time alarm closest to your current time. After using it for a while you get used to these shortcuts and it becomes quicker.