How to Train Cortana and Use in Microsoft Edge : Ultimate Guide to "Cortana"

       Digital Assistant of Windows 10 "Cortana" can  perform serious tasks for you. For example, it can create calendar appointments, show you your schedule for the next day or week, and even move calendar appointments for you. 

Using Cortana saves tedious typing and instead of entering notes using the keyboard, just tell Cortana to take a note and then speak it. Instead of searching for the Alarms app and manually creating alarms, tell Cortana to set it. Cortana is available on Windows phones. This means alarms, calendars and reminders created on your PC are available even when your computer is switched off.

• Train Cortana

     Cortana provides quick response to voice commands. Whatever you want to search, just speak to cortana and it will display the specified results. But it will be difficult for cortana if the room is full of people or more than one person. Even if television is turned on or music is playing. So it will be a better solution that Cortana recognize a specific person's voice.    

     There’s also the possibility that a mischievous person might shout “Delete all files!” Would Cortana do it? It’s best not to try it, just in case! It is best if Cortana ignores what everyone else in the room is saying and responds only to your specific voice commands.

•  Cortana's Response to Your Specific Voice Commands

1- Click in the Cortana search box on the taskbar, then click the Notebook icon on 

      the left. 

2- Click Settings and turn on the switch next to ‘Let Cortana respond to “Hey 

      Cortana!”Underneath is ‘Respond best’ and the choice is ‘Anyone’ or ‘To me’.

3- First you must click the ‘Learn my voice’ button. After doing this, you will be asked 

     to read out loud a few sentences of text and Cortana will listen and learn your voice.

4- Afterwards you can select ‘To me’ and Cortana will be able to differentiate between 

        your voice and others.

•  Say “Hey, Cortana!”

        If you make heavy use of Cortana to search for things and perform actions using voice commands, you can get the digital assistant to constantly listen. This saves having to click the microphone button at the right of the search box. 

1- Click in Cortana’s search box, click the Notebook icon on the left.

2- Click Settings, and set the switch under Hey Cortana to On. 

3- Now you can just say “Hey, Cortana!” to wake Cortana and issue commands 

       and searches.

• Ask Cortana "What is this Song"

Cortana is much more fun than you thought. Sometimes when a great song is playing on the radio you might wonder what it is. Who is the artist? What album is that? Cortana can listen and then tell you exactly what it is. Just follow these steps:

1- Click the microphone button in the Cortana box in the taskbar or say    “Hey, Cortana!” 

2- Say “What is this song?” Cortana listens for about 20 seconds and then tells you 

      the  artist, album and track.

• Search with Cortana in Microsoft Edge

Microsoft Edge is the brand new browser of Windows 10. Although Internet Explorer 11 is also available in Windows 10 but Edge has some Extra powerful features. Windows 10 enables you to use Cortana in Microsoft Edge. Cortana  is the best way to search the web in a quick manner. This feature, which works only with the Edge web browser, is a great way to look up unfamiliar words, phrases, definitions and so on.

1- Write in the "Search bar" in taskbar or use microphone to tell Cortana what do you

       want to search. 

2- Click and drag over a word or phrase on a web page in Edge to select it. Right click 

        it and choose Ask Cortana. A panel opens on the right-hand side with results 

        from Cortana’s search. Windows.  

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