![]() ![]() The company wants to ensure the system works well in English before expanding it to other languages. In the case of this particular product, the delay is perhaps understandable since Cortana – named after an AI character in Microsoft's Halo video games – relies heavily on voice recognition and language interpretation. "You don't want to launch something in Canada unless it's in both languages." "I don't know for sure but it probably has something to do with the English and French," said Mary-Ellen Anderson, vice-president of the developer and platform group for Microsoft Canada, in an interview at the company's Build conference in San Francisco. No release date has been announced for Canada. Microsoft's answer to Apple's Siri will be launching in the United States this summer as part of the Windows Phone 8.1 software update coming to new smartphones and some existing ones, with the United Kingdom following afterward. What makes it worse, is that Cortana is designed not just to be a gadfly who tells jokes on command, but is Microsoft's bold attempt to re-engineer how humans interact with technology (more on that later). ![]() Canadians can add Cortana, Microsoft's artificially intelligent personal assistant for smartphones, to the long list of technology-related products and services that won't be available north of the border – at least for the foreseeable future.
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