Windows 10: View Poll Results: Does 'hey Cortana' work for you?

Thank you at last got it working
Done all 6 things she put up but it works on mine
just had to repress learn my voice
Once done it then alters to Only me

 

So you can say "Hey Cortana, what's the time?" and she tells you without pressing the microphone button? I had to reboot after teaching my voice but it works like that again for me now.

 

Yes and ask her to get me this forum, or face book did not need to reboot
Also the news or weather

 

Cannot change button or record past first recording, yet works perfectly on mic

 

Well that is good news *Smile Let's hope relearning works for @supashaka also.

I was thinking the accent may be the problem. I set everything (speech, locale etc) to US to get Cortana to work but I don't sound particularly American. Even if I try saying "Hey Cortana" in what I imagine is a really strong Robert De Niro accent it doesn't work if set "To anyone" not "To me". Could be my accent is still rubbish though.

When I was trying to speak the six phrases it kept giving up. The first one worked, then the second would say "I'm not getting this" or some such. Third would work after 2 goes, Forth it couldn't understand me again and so on.

I had to keep clicking on the Microphone button to get it going again as during this process it seems to turn it off if it can't understand you. I did make it the end eventually though. You could try that if it doesn't say "Listening..." while you are trying to speak the phrase it wants. I also picked up my laptop and talked loudly right into the microphone hole but I'm not sure if that was required as it seems it can hear me fine at a normal distance and voice now.

 

What mic are you doing it with
Tried the one on the laptop by the camera and she does not respond at all
I have A USB headphone set with built in mike and Cortana responds to that ok

 

Bloody hell...shouted out loud right into the microphone.....it now works.....thanks gents, I have learnt something new.

 

That is why I use USB headphone and mike
Cortana understood my English Accent ok
Once all 6 voice overs done it came up on mine all good to go.
Does she when you say Hey Cortana say your username as well as showing it up on screen.
On mine she said my username back
When I asked to get me Face Book she came back
Getting you Face Book
Then goes straight into Face Book
Love it

 

Good so have I
well happy now more than ever

 

Er, no, none of that. If I say "Hey Cortana" the box appears saying "listening". Doesn't say my name at all. I tried to find out with "Hey Cortana, who am I?". The answer is "You are Chief" apparently.

I then tried "hey Cortana, get me facebook" as you suggested (it seemed to understand "give me facebook") and the response was "I'll need quite a lot of upgrades before I can give you that". Probably I joke I don't get (or give).

I think I'll turn if off again... In a bit...

 

Might be because here in UK she has more apps anyway thank you for bringing it to our attention and that we were able to help one another even Dencal has gone away happy

 

Unfortunately setting cortana to recognise me as opposed to everyone isn't a solution for me, I did it successfully (all the phrases were recognised straight away) when I 1st set up (although 'hey cortana' was already working when she was set to recognise everybody) and it was about 2 days later when the phrase stopped working.

But I'm glad others got it working, hopefully it will keep working unlike for me.

 

If it stops will let you know ok

 

It does, they were but now not. Try it: turn it all off, turn it on, tell Cortana to learn your voice again, set to "Just me" and see.

May I ask why not? I've tried but I can't think of any reason...

You say it doesn't work for you but you don't want to narrow it down so it works for you specifically. You'd rather it didn't work for you when defined specifically rather than did work when defined generally?

Are you saying it works for everyone else except you? In that case you have to teach it.

Even set on "Just me" Cortana recognizes "Yes Cortana" (not "hey") when shouted (from across the room) by my wife.

 

Well might find out tomorrow if ok but then again I nearly always shut down
All I did was Cortana then Settings then clicked learn your voice again
That was it
Update
If I use the mike on the laptop by the camera Cortana takes no notice.
Have just tried it
But USB I only have to whisper and she is active straight away