The virtual personal assistant space became a little more crowded when Microsoft announced Cortana for not only Windows Phone devices, but Android and iOS as well. What’s more interesting is that everybody’s favourite alternative to Android that’s still Android, Cyanogen, could be looking heavily into integrating Cortana with their next version of Cyanogen OS. This news came out due to some comments that Cyanogen co-founder and CEO, Kirt McMaster, said during an interview:
“When Apple launched Apple Music at WWDC, they showed the Siri integration with Apple Music. Siri doesn’t power Spotify like that so we can do these kind of things with for example, integration of Microsoft’s Cortana into the OS enabling natural language to power Spotify and other services.”
“Natural language coupled with intelligence is very important but as an application it doesn’t rally (sic) work because you need to be embedded into the framework of the OS because that is where you get all the signal from the services that makes that intelligence smarter.â€
In case you missed that last bit, it sounds like Cyanogen is looking at integrating Cortana into Cyanogen OS itself – when Microsoft released Cortana for Android a few months ago, its notable limitations were because it couldn’t hook into the system like Google Now could. If Cyanogen succeeds in doing this, we could be saying “Hey Cortana” to our Android devices at some point in the future.
What do you think about the news that Cortana could be the Cyanogen OS personal assistant of choice?
Source: International Business Times via TalkAndroid
