Windows 10: Cortana's Accent

Even though my default language is English United States, Cortana keeps talking with a british accent. Is there any way to change it?

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Cortana

Hi,

There are several reasons that may affect the ability of Cortana
to recognize and provide you an accurate search result, one of which is the accent. To isolate your concern, we suggest that you enable the
Recognize non-native accent for this language option to improve Cortana's voice recognition. To do this, follow these steps:

• Press Windows
  
  +
  I key.
• Select Time & Language.
• Select Speech.
• Under Speech language, click the box for Recognize non-native accent for this language
  option to enable it.

Once you're done, try the search again and check if Cortana's voice recognition has improved.

Let us know should you need further assistance.

 

Cortana Notebook

In order to enable the Notebook icon in Cortana, I suggest you to check if you have enabled Cortana.

To enable Cortana, please follow the steps below:

• Go to Cortana.
• Go to Settings.
• Turn on “Cortana can give you suggestions, ideas, reminders, alerts”.

Hope this helps.

 

Cortana's Font Color (Blue) is impossible to read when she responds to me

Hello,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

I understand that you are trying to change the font color for Cortana on your PC, I suggest you to follow the step mentioned below:

Steps:

1. Type ‘Color settings’ in the Windows search bar.
   
2. Tap on the ‘Color’ option.
   
3. Uncheck ‘Automatically pick an accent color from my background’.
   
4. You can select the preferred color, under
   Windows colors.
   
5. You can click on Cortana and you will be able to notice the color that was selected.
   

Hope it helps.

Sandeep Kumar M

Microsoft Community - Moderator