Harman Kardon is
working on a new smart speaker Cortana-powered Invoke launching under Microsoft
that makes the company to enter into the smart speaker market officially. For
2017 launch, Microsoft will also take some facts from Amazon’s Echo to enlarge
its functionality area by adding to the device’s initial capabilities that
includes voice-controlled music playback, making and receiving calls via Skype,
accomplishing several tasks under the personal digital assistant of Microsoft,
using “skills” that can be tap by developers to unite their services.
A Cortana skill
kit was launched in a public preview held today by Microsoft. The developers
will be permitted by the Software Development Kit (SDK) to generate third-party
“skills” by building and publishing a bot to the Bot Framework’s new Cortana
channel providing the ease of using same code to those who are already using
Microsoft's Bot Framework. All devices with Cortana including Android, Windows10 devices and iOS and Cortana powered speakers as well will access the Cortana
Skills Kit.
A complete list of
his early partners comprising Domino’s iHeartRadio, OpenTable, Expedia, Capital
One, TuneIn, weather notification service Dark Sky and others has been posted
here by Microsoft. These are still at the mouth of preview stage and in the
coming time, arrival of many others is also expected.
Following Harman
Kardon, HP is also upcoming with a Cortana- powered speaker. On the other hand,
Intel is enabling other hardware vendors to generate their own Cortana-powered
devices by providing them a reference platform.
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