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Microsoft used its science-fiction video game franchise “Halo” as inspiration for its new voice-controlled personal assistant software. The software gets its name and voice from the artificial intelligence character Cortana from the game series. Microsoft’s speech recognition and response tool for Windows Phone 8.1 is the company’s answer to Apple ‘s (AAPL) Siri and Google ‘s (GOOG) Google Now services. While Siri is known for her corny jokes and lame comebacks, Cortana is a geek icon. In the “Halo” games, the sexy Cortana is a hologram who helps hero Master Chief kill hostile alien monsters by providing useful information when needed. Cortana makes Siri look like Clippy, Microsoft ‘s (MSFT) awkward, much-ridiculed first attempt at a digital assistant for its Office software. Scalper1 News
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