Microsoft has already bring Cortana , itsvoice - recognition digital assistant , to Android with an app . But to use it as a system - wide alternative to Google ’s voice recognition requires deep integration — something that substitute Android vendor Cyanogen is keen to do .
In case you ’re not familiar with the company , Cyanogen is the power behind Cyanogen OS , a non - Google - approved version of Android , with a slenderly different spirit and more options for power users .
Cyanogenmod has historically been the nomadic bone of choice for Android tweakers , but it ’s been earn mainstream cred , havingshipped as the defaultOS on theexcellent OnePlus Onelast year .
The society is already friendly with Microsoft — the Office apps are installed on Cyanogen OS by default option — but consort to an interview with theInternational Business Times , CEO Kirt McMaster is keen to intensify that bond , including adding Cortana system of rules - astray :
“ When Apple found Apple Music at WWDC , they testify the Siri desegregation with Apple Music . Siri does n’t power Spotify like that so we can do these kind of thing with for example , integration of Microsoft ’s Cortana into the OS enabling lifelike language to power Spotify and other overhaul . ”
McMaster has a decimal point — as with child as Siri and all her smart tricks are , it ’s far more limiting if you do n’t use Apple services . Having voice control over Spotify and the like would be a killer feature of speech ; exactly the kind of affair that could make a niche Android fork go mainstream .
[ International Business Times ]
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