Ed Bott - Windows 10 Support Secrets

22 CHAPTER 2 | Personalizing the Windows 10 experience She also has a sense of humor. I couldn’t remember exactly which game the name Cortana came from, so I clicked the microphone button on the right side of the search box and asked what I thought was a perfectly reasonable question. This is what I received in reply. Actually, that’s pretty funny, and it’s just one of the small tricks Cortana can do. If your hardware has a suitable microphone array, you can ask questions by starting with “Hey Cortana.” To turn on that feature, click in the search box and click the Settings icon on the left. That long list begins with a switch you can use to turn Cortana on or off at any time. Slide the Hey Cortana switch to the On position, as shown in Figure 2-4, to activate voice control, and then use the additional voice training features to improve recognition.