Microsoft's "Cortana" Voice Assistant to hit Lumias in April, voice over done by Halo's Jen Taylor - Polidicks

[url]http://www.phonearena.com/news/Bing-tell-me-Microsofts-Cortana-voice-assistant-to-hit-Lumias-in-April-voice-over-done-by-Halos-Jen-Taylor_id51464[/url] [img]http://i-cdn.phonearena.com/images/article/51464-image/Bing-tell-me-Microsofts-Cortana-voice-assistant-to-hit-Lumias-in-April-voice-over-done-by-Halos-Jen-Taylor.jpg[/img] [quote]The geeks of mobile, and especially the Windows Phone fans, are eagerly awaiting Microsoft's Cortana voice-controlled assistant. That's not only because it will finally be an answer to Google Now and Apple's Siri, so their friends with iPhones or Android handsets will have one less reason to brag, but also because Microsoft is big in artificial intelligence, voice recognition and simultaneous translation research. .... Cortana, claims the source, will be voice-overed by Jen Taylor, who does the accent of the same character in the Halo franchise. It is also coming to the Bing app in iOS, Xbox One consoles, and, naturally, to Windows 9 "Threshold", when it hits your computer next spring. That's the timeframe also for Cortana to reach countries other than the US, as it will apparently launch in beta stateside only for this year. Some sample questions it will answer are below, evidently you will be able to make small talk, like with Google's or Apple's virtual assistants[/quote]

now i can finally find out if cortana wants to bang me as hard as i want to bang her.

why does nokia get everything first? :suicide:

The video in the article is really cool. I got really excited when at around the 8:00 mark, the program started to say what he was saying in Chinese. Very nice. Also, I really want the Cortana VO on my phone.

[QUOTE=Mio Akiyama;43558614]why does nokia get everything first? :suicide:[/QUOTE] possibly because microsoft owns nokia's mobile division now? was that nokia and microsoft? i can't remember.

"Halo's Jen Taylor" I can name at least 50 other games she has done. But you can check her IMDB or something because I'm not going to.

[QUOTE=ColossalSoft;43558853]"Halo's Jen Taylor" I can name at least 50 other games she has done. But you can check her IMDB or something because I'm not going to.[/QUOTE] Well "Super Mario's Jen Taylor" wouldn't fit seeing how it's named after her character in Halo.

[QUOTE=Durrsly;43558897]Well "Super Mario's Jen Taylor" wouldn't fit seeing how it's named after her character in Halo.[/QUOTE] Why not just "voice over done by Jen Taylor"? Why does she have to belong to Halo?

holy shit... thats amazing [quote] Windows 9 "Threshold"[/quote] wait they are bringing this to PCs, not even Apple has done that

[QUOTE=ColossalSoft;43558939]Why not just "voice over done by Jen Taylor"? Why does she have to belong to Halo?[/QUOTE] Because it's named after her character in Halo and so they're referencing that. It was in the post you quoted even.

[QUOTE=ColossalSoft;43558939]Why not just "voice over done by Jen Taylor"? Why does she have to belong to Halo?[/QUOTE] Because who the hell is Jen Taylor? At least I know who she is now. Context my friend.

[QUOTE=Doom14;42167071][IMG]http://i41.tinypic.com/34xna6w.jpg[/IMG] [I]It looks like you're trying to use Google. Would you like to default your homepage to Bing? [/I][/QUOTE]

I just want Scarlett Johansson's voice in my devices

I bet all she'll do is yell "slip space rupture!" every 15 minutes.

for everyone's sake I hope that you can customize it a bit, like giving a different call-phrase instead of "bing tell me". Like, give it a name or something. Call her Cortana or Jen or whatever other character she's done, give an original new character name to go with it, especially if it's clearly going to have a voice that doesn't really come off as a [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aShUFAG_WgM]'Bing'[/url]

[QUOTE=ColossalSoft;43558939]Why not just "voice over done by Jen Taylor"? Why does she have to belong to Halo?[/QUOTE] i looked her up to give me ammunition to fling vaguely insulting quips at you but then I saw she voiced cate archer in NOLF and though how much better a voice assistant that would be rather than the blue lady from halo

[QUOTE=ColossalSoft;43558939]Why not just "voice over done by Jen Taylor"? Why does she have to belong to Halo?[/QUOTE] Because she's most popularly known as Cortana from Halo, and the product name is Cortana?

If the voice is done by an actual person, won't that mean there's a limited number of pre-canned lines, as opposed to a generated voice?

[QUOTE=TheAdmiester;43559407]If the voice is done by an actual person, won't that mean there's a limited number of pre-canned lines, as opposed to a generated voice?[/QUOTE] Siri was also voiced by a real person. It utilizes the 'learned' vocal patterns to assemble its own speech

[QUOTE=ColossalSoft;43558853]"Halo's Jen Taylor" I can name at least 50 other games she has done. But you can check her IMDB or something because I'm not going to.[/QUOTE] Left 4 dead

[QUOTE=dai;43559462]Siri was also voiced by a real person. It utilizes the 'learned' vocal patterns to assemble its own speech[/QUOTE] Damn, that's pretty advanced.

[QUOTE=Adarrek;43559638]Left 4 dead[/QUOTE] Great, now every time I hear this I'll think of my friend's sister spamming ~"Oh my god we're almost there" in no mercy

[QUOTE=Adarrek;43559638]Left 4 dead[/QUOTE] FEAR 2

I hope if you ask her for directions to a specific store or area she replies with "Here Chief, I've marked it with a waypoint."

They're dicks if you can't activate it by saying "Cortana!"

-snip- I actually kind of want this. Jen Taylor has a good voice.

This whole article seems extremely fishy to me for the following reasons: -PhoneArena is a shit sensationalist site, and the "via" site that originally reported the news is WMPoweruser.com, which is known for posting all sorts of outrageous and baseless rumors about Windows Phone. Also the "leaker" isn't credible at all. -Why would it only hit Lumia phones if it's Microsoft who's behind this? You might say "well, MS owns Nokia now" but it still doesn't make sense since [URL="http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/12/5300374/sony-comments-on-windows-phone-rumors"]Microsoft is in talks with other handset makers to build Windows Phones[/URL], so why would they put them down by keeping such a crucial feature to their own phones only?

"Cortana, what can you tell me about the architecture of the Roman Colosseum?" "That's not a natural formation"

Is she going to start having breakdowns and 180's on her character?

[QUOTE=CapLaPorte;43563189]"Cortana, what can you tell me about the architecture of the Roman Colosseum?" "That's not a natural formation"[/QUOTE] I always found it funny in Halo 2 when she claims that the lakes on Delta Halo which contain the Forerunner structures, one of which Regret is in, aren't a natural formation. The lakes on the enormous, artificial megastructure aren't natural... ... duh.