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Microsoft releases Cortana app for iOS to beta tester community

It’s Microsoft’s alternative to Siri and its beta is now available on iOS. Microsoft has released a beta of its Cortana personal assistant app for iOS. The app, which went out to a handful of testers who signed up to trial the new app were notified by way of email that the iOS version of […]

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Microsoft announces Cortana for iOS, Android devices, cites release date for later this year

If you were thinking of dropping Siri for another personal assistant, Microsoft has something on the way. Microsoft announced on Tuesday that its Cortana personal digital assistant will be available for iOS and Android devices later this year. Windows 10 will also feature a new “Phone Companion” app as a central place for PC users […]

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Apple apparently assembling team of speech-recognition experts to create neural network-powered Siri

It’s time to have a more meaningful chat with Siri. Per Wired, Apple is apparently assembling a team of A-list speech recognition researchers, including high-ranking employees from Nuance, to create an in-house Siri engine based on neural networking. The article states that Apple has created a group of software engineers and researchers from Nuance, the […]

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Apple confirms purchase of Cue, has yet to disclose final sale price

It’s hard to say exactly WHAT Apple will do with Cue, but there’s some interesting possibilities. Per AppleInsider and TechCrunch, Apple is said to have purchased Cue, a startup company behind a personal assistant app for iPhone which shut down just this week. An anonymous source claimed on Thursday that Apple is buying Cue, which […]