After Edge, Microsoft is Giving Cortana a Performance Upgrade

Microsoft’s voice assistant Cortana is trailing behind itsbiggest competitorsbut the company is far from giving up on its ambitious plans. Microsoft intends to positionCortana as an aide which will boost users’ productivityand now, it is starting to receivemulti-user voice recognitionwhich mightbring it back into competitionwith other assistants.

The new voice recognition feature was first reported byWindows Central, which informs us that it should beavailable to users who have set up their Xbox or Harman Kardon Invoke(smart speaker with Cortana) with the same Microsoft account as their Windows PC. The new feature will greet users with an option totrain the assistant to identify different usersbased on their voices and showing personalized results.

Well, well, well…what have we here? It seems that#Cortanaon the@HarmanKardonInvoke now supports multiple users.pic.twitter.com/udY9rZLJQv

— Greg Edwards (@gregsedwards)December 3, 2018

The new feature is believed to roll out to all users in phases. With it, Cortana can be trained to identify voices ofup to six different usersand each will be able to set up their feed and settings separately. Currently, Cortana only supports multiple users simultaneously when Windows machines have more than one users signed-in at the same time.

Besides improving functionality, voice recognition for multiple users will add a layer of security and prevent others from misusing your device or accessing your private data. As of now,there is no timelineas to when the feature will reach all other users.

Cortana is not the only product that Microsoft is revamping. The tech giant recently announced its plans to breathe life into its browser, Edge, by shifting it to thesame rendering engine as Google Chrome. This will help Microsoft’s browser support a wider range of web extensions, and handle responsive websites better. The same is expected to come to beta users early in next year followed by a wider roll-out possibly in the second half.

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