Microsoft and Amazon on Wednesday announced the release of a public preview of the integration of their Cortana and Alexa voice assistants. Cortana will be available on amazon Echo devices, while ...

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. You use both Alexa and Cortana as voice assistants, but ...

Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. may be competing with each other in the cloud-computing market, but in the realm of voice-controlled personal assistants, Cortana and Alexa are forging a friendship ...

SEATTLE — Voice-controlled digital assistants such as Apple’s Siri, Google Assistant, Amazon’s Alexa and Microsoft’s Cortana are good at numerous things. They can help people play music, set up ...

When Amazon Echo's Alexa can't find the answer to a question in a search query it turns to Bing as a backup, so it doesn't seem out of the ordinary that two virtual assistants — Cortana and Alexa — ...

Amazon’s Alexa and Microsoft’s Cortana are coming soon to a smart device near you -- together, with new integrated features that allow the digital assistants to talk to each other.

Digital assistants are being widely hyped as the future standard for interacting with computers. For the companies creating voice AIs, it’s critical that customers use the product frequently and stay ...

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Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella said voice assistants like Siri and Alexa were "dumb as a rock." His comments come as excitement around generative AI has reached a fever pitch. Microsoft has poured more ...

"Open <assistant>"? Really? Not "tell <assistant> <message>"? This seems rather unnatural and forced. I can only assume "tell" is already a command for one of the two services. Still, you'd think they ...

Xbox One users can now give voice commands to their console through other devices. “Voice-control functionality is already a thing through the console itself, but now this expanded function via Xbox ...