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17. Talking to Cortana

Wallace Wang

(1)San Diego, California, USA

The main purpose of the Internet is to find information such as sports scores, driving directions, or national and international news. While it’s easy to load the Edge browser and search the Internet for specific web sites on your own, it can be faster and easier to just use Cortana instead.

Cortana is a natural language recognition program that lets you type or speak a question. Cortana then understands your question and searches for an answer on the Internet. By using Cortana, you can avoid the hassle of wading through multiple web sites and web pages, and just find the information ...

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