Windows 10: Cortana

Anyone having any luck using Cortana? I have been trying it out and so far I'm not impressed. I can't get "Hey Cortana" to work. I have to click the microphone before I can give voice commands. The only things I have been able to do is web searches and set up a reminder.

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"Stopcode -- WHEA uncorrectabel Error"

I no longer have this problem. However, when I do the update it renders my graphics card useless so now I boot from my floppy drive and don't update at all.

 

1709 Bluescreens & video problems

I was just letting the process work itself out as reinstall/recovery didn't help and eventually it would let me sign in. A few days ago while I was typing away, my screen had a mind of its' own and just went extra wide screen and removed my dual screen
ability. Now my videos don't play in FB and can't get out of this widescreen. I've again tried Recovery to no avail. There have been several updates since the blue screen error. I went out and looked at my devices and now it must has Basic Display Driver instead
of the Dell driver that was there before. It no longer recognizes it. I have done recovery and it worked for a few minutes but again reverts back to this Basic Driver. How can it do this? I also no longer have a Sleep function on my shutdown menu, just Restart
or Shut Down. I have done Reset already and had to reinstall several of my apps. This continues to get worse. Everything else is working fine. I have no other screen issues.

 

Seems Cortana on Windows 10 Build 9926 is not available , as yet, for the Australian market.

 

For now your not missing anything!

 

I did manage to get Cortana to say my name.

 

As for me I was advised when I went to use Cortana it was not available in my region, which is Australia

 

Not available in the UK either.

 

I just changed my region to US and it worked (although I'm not sure if I installed the US or UK ISO originally)

 

It doesn't work for me John. I installed the UK version and it is running in a VM which probably doesn't help.

 

Yeah I agree change region to U.S.
How to enable Cortana if you're using Windows 10 outside the U.S. - Neowin

If you don't have a microphone symbol showing in the search box beside the start button you have to click in the box and then click on settings in the upper left hand corner and Cortana should be set to off just turn it on.

 

Cortana is working pretty well for me on my modestly equipped MSI AIO. I set it for always listening and the response is pretty good. The window jumps right up with "Hey, Cortana" and the recognition of what I'm saying is fairly quick. The ambiguities of English do get in the way. I asked, "When is the nor'easter going to hit New York City?" It seems "nor'easter" is not in her vocabulary. However, she did toss it to Bing which did figure it out enough to have the answer on the first page of results.

Bye.

 

Keith, VM should not be a problem. It runs in my VM but I shut it off. Was pretty useless.

 

If you're not in the US, that could be a reason why. Cortana's not that fully developed out just yet.

Also, do make sure your mic is all set up and is at a good recoding volume for best effect.

 

I am in Canada but Cortana worked. That's because I select US region whenever I install W10. Not because of Cortana. Just a preference. I already shut Cortana up.