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China Probes Microsoft, Shows Up at Offices Unannounced
2014-07-28 23:39:18| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
State Administration for Industry and Commerce officials arrived in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Chengdu.
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Microsoft shows off real-time universal speech translator for Skype, coming in 2014
2014-05-28 16:40:33| Extremetech
At the inaugural Code Conference in California, CEO Satya Nadella has revealed that Microsoft's real-time speech translation technology will finally make the jump from the mystical, bottomless pit of its R&D department to a consumer product: Skype. On stage at the conference, Nadella demoed a beta version of Skype Translator, which performed real-time translation of English to German speech, and vice versa. Skype Translator isn't perfect, but it's tantalizingly close to the creation of a Star Trek-like universal translator -- or Babel fish if you prefer -- that allows everyone in the world to communicate, even if they don't share a common language.
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Build 2014: Microsoft announces Windows Phone 8.1, shows off Cortana the digital assistant
2014-04-02 18:23:27| Extremetech
At the Build 2014 conference keynote in San Francisco, Microsoft's Terry Myerson and Joe Belfiore have kicked off things by giving us more details about Windows 8.1 Update 1, and officially unveiling Windows Phone 8.1.
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Microsoft to add Siri-like Cortana to Windows devices, shows off Windows Phone 8.1
2013-09-12 19:07:39| Extremetech
Love it or hate it, Apple's voice dictation software, Siri, is quite popular. If you live in a bustling city, it's not uncommon to see someone in a rush yelling into their iPhone in order to send texts, emails, or update calendars. Microsoft, regularly late to the party nowadays, is said to be working on its own version of Siri called Cortana -- named after the character from the Halo series -- that it will bring to all the major Microsoft devices.
Microsoft shows off 3D mapping, voice commands for Bing
2013-06-26 19:52:09| CNET News.com
The company takes aim at Google's popular mapping app with the addition of 3D imaging capabilities and voice search. [Read more]
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