Getting started: Playing short audio clips & composing speech responses in your Cortana Skill
In this blog post we will see how Cortana skills can play short audio clips and compose the Text-to-Speech(TTS) responses that Cortana speaks on...
Welcome to the Cortana Skills Tech Community!
Greetings everyone & Welcome to the Cortana Developer community!
Just over 3 months ago at Build 2017, we announced the public preview of the Cortana...
Microsoft now lets you stream PC games to an Xbox One and use a...
Microsoft is now letting Xbox One owners stream their PC games to the console and use a controller to play them. A...
Microsoft tweaks Xbox and Teams services during 775 percent surge in cloud demand
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Microsoft is seeing a massive increase in demand for its cloud services during the...
Microsoft brings Spotify and useful widgets to its Xbox Game Bar on Windows 10
Microsoft gaming chief Phil Spencer admitted last year that the software maker had “a ton of work to do on Windows” for...
Windows 10 closes in on Microsoft’s 1 billion device goal
Windows 10 is now running on 800 million devices worldwide, Microsoft has announced. The figure includes not only traditional laptop and desktop...
Publishing Cortana Skills Just Got Easier
Publishing Cortana Skills Just Got Easier
You can now publish your skills directly through Cortana’s channel configuration panel in Microsoft Azure portal! Manage how you...
Getting Started: Personalize your Cortana Skill interactions by leveraging User profile and Context
Welcome to the second blog post of our Getting Started series! Through this series, we aim to help you build great Cortana Skills, that...
Microsoft demonstrates xCloud game streaming a week before Google’s ‘future of gaming’ event
Microsoft has provided a live demonstration of its upcoming Project xCloud game streaming service. The software maker originally unveiled xCloud last year,...
Microsoft and Xiaomi to collaborate on AI, cloud computing and hardware
After Microsoft signed a deal to test Windows 10 on Xiaomi devices in 2015 and then Xiaomi bought a trove of patents to...
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