Cortana 3.0 brings refreshed UI, music podcast integration, more

Cortana, Microsoft’s ain personal digital assistant, has been overhauled on iPhone as well as iPad this morn with a sleek novel blueprint that includes a brand-new conversational sense for answers amongst novel features such every bit back upward for podcasts as well as music-streaming services similar Spotify, iHeartRadio as well as TuneIn.

Cortana’s overhauled interface gets rid of the former blueish topic as well as is straightaway to a greater extent than oftentimes than non white, which you lot may or may non like. Overall, the interface is cleaner as well as with less clutter than before. Navigation has been improved because Microsoft has removed lots of redundancies. For example, you lot straightaway accept simply 3 tabs—Discover, Upcoming as well as Devices.

Discover provides a quick listing of things you lot tin inquire Cortana. The Devices tab is where you lot grapple your Cortana-connected hardware. The secondary tab, called Interests, is no to a greater extent than because you lot straightaway consider all relevant data tailored to your tastes via Google Now-like cards constitute nether the novel Upcoming cards.

The novel conversational sense for requests permits you lot to exercise everything with your vox inwards price of settings reminders, creating calendar events as well as laid timers.

You could preciously inquire Cortana to exercise a reminder, but had to piece of occupation into details manually. Cortana 3.0 is straightaway smart plenty to parse your spoken inquiry as well as exercise the correct thing—saying “set a reminder for 2pm tomorrow” volition exercise simply that without whatever farther input on your part.

Simply inquire Cortana to play your favorite songs as well as podcasts with iHeartRadio, Spotify or TuneIn. You tin fifty-fifty inquire to play music through a paired Bluetooth device similar a wireless speaker. If you’d similar to bring together a Skype or Teams coming together past times using your voice, you lot tin exercise that, too.

Lastly, the settings interface has been overhauled as well as there’s straightaway a dedicated novel house to grapple as well as develop your Cortana devices correct nether the Devices tab.

Cortana 3.0 is a complimentary download from App Store.

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