A new voice-controlled speaker from Harman Kardon is powered with the Cortana voice recognition system from Microsoft. And, it is now capable of accessing one of the widely used streaming audio apps — ...

Microsoft is bringing Cortana speech recognition technology to the Office suite of applications. Check out the video below to learn more about what you can do with this new functionality, which is now ...

The last few versions of Microsoft Windows have had built-in support for speech recognition, allowing you to control some PC functions with your voice and to dictate text for input in various ...

Only a decade ago, voice recognition was still a new gimmick for most consumers. The relatively recent rise of digital assistants such as Apple’s Siri, Google Now and Microsoft’s Cortana has made the ...

Cortana is getting multi-user support on Xbox and Harman Kardon Invoke devices very soon. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. While ...

One of the reasons that Cortana has historically lagged behind its competitors is because it's never been able to recognize multiple users. While you might be able to ask it what's on your schedule ...

Users of Microsoft's voice-enabled services such as Cortana will now be able to decide whether or not the audio recordings of their interactions can be used by the company to improve its speech ...

The latest Xbox One update includes plenty of features to please gamers, but gaming has never been the sole focus of Microsoft’s console. While Microsoft has moved away from its goal of taking over ...

Speech Recognition software is clearly a glimpse into the future. They are programs that use your voice to understand what you want, turn it into readable material and search a device for it when ...

In October 2017, Amazon enabled its Alexa personal digital assistant to distinguish between the voices of different users. More than a year later, Microsoft seemingly is getting closer to enabling the ...

This story was originally published Oct. 7, 2016, and updated May 10, 2017 with new information. Windows has a feature it doesn’t like to talk about. While the OS lets you scrawl notes with a stylus, ...