cortana

A big hole in Cortana is the mobile phone experience .

Cortana的一大缺失在于其手机端的使用体验。

In tests , Cortana generated mixed results .

在测试中，Cortana给出的结果比较杂乱。

Maybe you should ask Cortana for the movie times

或许你应该让你的小娜帮你查电影时间表。

It 's a feature similar to Google Now or Microsoft 's Cortana .

这与GoogleNow和Microsoft的Cortana类似。

Microsoft is pretty high on Cortana .

微软对Cortana的期望非常高。

A new addition right next to the Start button is Cortana , Microsoft 's virtual assistant .

就在开始按钮旁边，新增了微软的虚拟助手Cortana。

Cortana is built in to Windows phones and the problem is , you probably don 't own one .

Cortana是内置在Windows手机上的，问题是你可能不用这个品牌的手机。

Microsoft Cortana , by contrast , has eight languages tailored for 13 countries .

微软“小娜”为13个国家定制了8种语言。

At Microsoft , an editorial team of 29 people works to customise Cortana for local markets .

微软公司一个29人的编辑团队正着手推出面向地方市场的定制“小娜”服务。

For now , though , Cortana will primarily live on computers and tablets , limiting its usefulness .

但目前Cortana将主要在微软的电脑端和平板电脑上使用，其实际使用价值会比较有限。

It 's the basis for major breakthroughs including Skype Translator 's real-time translation and Microsoft 's Cortana personal assistant .

包括SkypeTranslator的实时翻译、微软小娜个人助手等重大技术突破都是建立在该原理之上。

In the future , Microsoft might even deploy Cortana as a virtual assistant to write the email too , based on that LinkedIn data .

将来，微软可能还要使用虚拟助手Cortana，让它根据人们在领英上的数据来撰写邮件。

Microsoft has positioned Cortana as a challenger to Apple 's Siri and Google Now .

微软对Cortana的定位是，这是一款挑战苹果（Apple）的Siri和GoogleNow的产品。

Microsoft says that Cortana will eventually be available as an app on devices running Google 's Android and Apple 's iOS mobile software .

微软表示，Cortana最终会成为使用谷歌的Android系统和苹果的iOS移动操作系统的设备上也可以安装的app。

Cortana , the virtual personal assistant Microsoft announced last week , is part of the company 's push into machine learning , Yaakobi and Shum said .

Yaakobi和Shum表示，微软上周发布的虚拟个人助理Cortana是该公司大力发展机器学习举措的一部分。

Microsoft went after Apple by pitting its new Surface Pro 4 tablet and Cortana smart assistant against the iPad Pro and Siri .

微软公司研发了全新的SurfacePro4平板电脑和Cortana智能服务来对抗苹果的iPadPro和Siri系统。

Expect to find Linked-In contacts popping up in Word and Excel , and trawled by Cortana , Microsoft 's artificial intelligence tool .

可以预想，将来Word和Excel中将弹出领英社交信息，微软的人工智能工具Cortana则会收集这些信息。

Google 's DeepMind have revealed a new speech synthesis generator that will be used to help computer voices , like Siri and Cortana , sound more human .

谷歌旗下的人工智能公司DeepMind近日研制出了一种新型语音合成系统，该技术可以让如Siri和Cortana这样的计算机合成语音听起来更接近真实人声。

Microsoft then makes Cortana list out several other features of the Surface Pro 4 , which leads Siri to concede , " Maybe this party wasn 't such a good idea . "

在其后的广告中，Cortana把SurfacePro4的其他性能列了一个表给Siri，最后Siri承认道：“好吧，也许这个派对开得没什么意义。”

There are currently several examples of AI that we use in our lives , the most recognizable would be the popular digital personal assistants , Siri , Cortana , or Google Now .

举几个目前已经应用于我们生活的人工智能的例子，最普及的可能是掌上电脑（PDA）、Siri、微软小娜（Cortana）和谷歌语音（GoogleNow）。

Take the company 's intelligent personal assistant , Cortana : " To me that 's the redefinition of productivity " because it touches all of your personal information , whether work or personal , he said .

就以该公司的智能个人助理Cortana为例：“在我看来，这是对生产力的重新定义，”他说，因为它触及大家所有的个人信息，既包括工作信息，还包括私人信息。

On other questions , like finding a place to eat , Cortana often falls back to doing searches on Bing.com , Microsoft 's search engine , which is less proficient than Google 's search engine .

对于其他问题，比如寻找吃饭的地方，Cortana通常会转而在微软开发的搜索引擎Bing上进行搜索，而Bing没有谷歌的搜索引擎那么精进。

It 's difficult to imagine that while on the go , people will yank a Windows tablet or computer out of their bag to ask Cortana to schedule a calendar appointment or create a reminder .

很难想象，人们会一边走一边从包里拿出个Windows平板电脑或笔记本，让Cortana在日程表上添加一个安排事项或创建一个提醒事项。

There 's the iPhone 's Siri ( now added to Apple TV ) , of course , but don 't forget Cortana on the Windows Phone or the S Voice on the Samsung Galaxy .

苹果手机上装有Siri语音助手（现今苹果电视上也装有此功能），当然，类似的语音功能软件还有微软手机上的“Cortana”（微软小娜）以及三星“盖乐世”系列手机上的SVoice语音助手功能。

On the other hand , Cortana did respond adequately to some other commands , like " Show me showtimes for ' Trainwreck , ' " which loaded a schedule of movie theaters showing the movie nearby .

但是，Cortana对一些其他指令反应的确足够到位。比如提出“显示《生活残骸》（Trainwreck）的放映时间”这一要求，它会显示附近上映这部电影的几个影院的时间表。

The urge to name the robots has born out at least one familiar pattern : the projection of female personalities on to new " intelligent " software assistants such as Amazon 's Alexa and Microsoft 's Cortana .

给机器人取名的冲动至少印证了人们熟悉的一种模式：将女性人格赋予亚马逊（Amazon）的Alexa和微软（Microsoft）的“小娜”（Cortana）等新款“智能”软件助手。

As a result , in its current state , Cortana is a promising start , but it 's far less useful than its direct rivals , Siri and Google 's Now , which are widely available on smartphones worldwide .

结果就是，在目前的状态下，Cortana是个有希望的开端，但它远远没有其直接竞争对手Siri和GoogleNow那么有用，后两者在智能手机领域使用非常广泛。

In addition , the idea of using a voice assistant on a stationary computer in a typical office environment , where colleagues will overhear you over their cubicle walls yapping to Cortana , seems off-putting .

而且，想象自己在一个典型的办公环境里，对着一台固定不动的电脑使用语音助手，还有旁边格子间的同事能听到你和Cortana的对话，这场景还挺让人倒胃口的。

Powered by intelligent software similar to Apple 's Siri or Microsoft 's Cortana , she is the brainchild of scientists at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and is based on her creator Prof Nadia Thalmann .

纳丁是新加坡南洋理工大学（NTU）科学家们的智慧结晶，其运行机制类似苹果Siri或微软小娜，她的外貌完全是按照其创造者纳迪娅·塔尔曼教授的样子为蓝本。

Combine the early bugs with the spottiness of Cortana and the fact that third-party app developers are still updating their Windows apps for Windows 10 , and the operating system still has a little ways to go before it becomes a solid all-around upgrade .

结合早期的这些毛病以及Cortana的不稳定，还有第三方应用开发者还没完成向Windows10的兼容，这个操作系统要实现一次稳定而全面的升级尚需些时日。