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Thanks. I was looking for that today but I stoped using Cortana anyway because she was totaly doing everyting else but what I told her.

 

"Go to linustechtips dot com"

 

Cortana - weather.com

 

and so on... :D My english accent is bad though so it may be a big part of the problem.

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Should this be considered news? I'd really like to try this, but Cortana is not available in my region :(

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Thanks. I was looking for that today but I stoped using Cortana anyway because she was totaly doing everyting else but what I told her.

 

"Go to linustechtips dot com"

 

Cortana - weather.com

 

and so on... :D My english accent is bad though so it may be a big part of the problem.

still works for searching stuff though. via keyboard etc.

 

 

 

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Should this be considered news? 

Tech news and "reviews" actually not really a but review. (unless you count using cortana finding out it uses bing and reailzing its bad and forcing it too google)

 

Was there a tutorial sub form i may have missed that. IF there is a tutorial subfourm a mod may please move it :)

 

 

 

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still works for searching stuff though. via keyboard etc.

 

Yea but I can search things for my self if I have to use keyboard. I find only the voice feature to be usefull for me as I can shout on my PC from across the room when I need something.

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Yea but I can search things for my self if I have to use keyboard. I find only the voice feature to be usefull for me as I can shout on my PC from across the room when I need something.

I mean instead of opening chrome and waiting for it to load the page then searching

 

you click the little search icon type and then chrome opens right to that search.

but yea.

 

 

 

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Wow, such discrimination. Firefox should have an extension like this. Or at least make it so i don't have to set Chrome as default. I hate chrome.

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Wow, such discrimination. Firefox should have an extension like this. Or at least make it so i don't have to set Chrome as default. I hate chrome.

its a chrome extension  lol. i will look tho.

But chrome #1

 

Edit: didn't find anything. you try if u do ill link it.

 

 

 

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Should this be considered news? I'd really like to try this, but Cortana is not available in my region :(

Just change your region to United States and your language to English in your settings and you can activate Cortana.

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Just change your region to United States and your language to English in your settings and you can activate Cortana.

Are you sure that works? When I tested the preview version it certainly didn't, I even changed my MS account settings, not just OS settings.

Micrososft thinks Finnish cannot into English.

 

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If it isn't working absolutely perfectly, according to all your assumptions, it is broken.

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Just change your region to United States and your language to English in your settings and you can activate Cortana.

I initially had everything in UK English, changed everything to US English. Nothing happened. If you have some sort of tutorial for this please share it with us. I really want to try out Cortana :D

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I initially had everything in UK English, changed everything to US English. Nothing happened. If you have some sort of tutorial for this please share it with us. I really want to try out Cortana :D

 

 

Are you sure that works? When I tested the preview version it certainly didn't, I even changed my MS account settings, not just OS settings.

Micrososft thinks Finnish cannot into English.

You will have to download the speech pack for English US . Go to your languages tab, select English US and options. Then download the speech feature(108MB). (Thats what MS says, doing it now and I am not sure if it will work though)

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You will have to download the speech pack for English US . Go to your languages tab, select English US and options. Then download the speech feature(108MB). (Thats what MS says, doing it now and I am not sure if it will work though)

I don't have a proper Win 10 installation ATM, I only had it in a VM and I am not going to install in until it gets some updates.

Simply because I don't want to risk having to go install WIN 7 again.

 

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But chrome #1

If by that, you mean Chrome is the best, then no. I use Firefox, and I massively prefer it to Chrome. Speed wise, there's such a miniscule difference that it's not even worth comparing it. I use Firefox as I find it a bit snappier and it's UI is 50x better IMO.

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If by that, you mean Chrome is the best, then no. I use Firefox, and I massively prefer it to Chrome. Speed wise, there's such a miniscule difference that it's not even worth comparing it. I use Firefox as I find it a bit snappier and it's UI is 50x better IMO.

UI, is subjective :)

 

 

 

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UI, is subjective :)

Yes, that's why I said "I find" and "IMO"

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You will have to download the speech pack for English US . Go to your languages tab, select English US and options. Then download the speech feature(108MB). (Thats what MS says, doing it now and I am not sure if it will work though)

Did that already. Changed region, input language (removed UK English keyboard to be sure), changed the locale thingy. It just won't work :( Maybe I'll wake up one day and everything will just work, but I won't waste my time on making it work. I don't consider Cortana such a useful thing, it would've just been nice to try it out.

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Did that already. Changed region, input language (removed UK English keyboard to be sure), changed the locale thingy. It just won't work :( Maybe I'll wake up one day and everything will just work, but I won't waste my time on making it work. I don't consider Cortana such a useful thing, it would've just been nice to try it out.

It dosent work for me too unfortunately, but my fathers laptop (from win 7) got cortana when he installed win 10. :(

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Just change your region to United States and your language to English in your settings and you can activate Cortana.

Pretty sure MS fixed this, not 100% sure though.

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