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Lo Vision home
Popular Sites
An explanation
RNIB Reading Services
Tips & Tricks
Email
Library
Alexa
Cortana
How to speak to Cortana
To start, check that Cortana knows your language English (UK) this may require a download of the English (uk) data.
Click the circle in the left of the task bar and speak.
Speak clearly and slower than your normal speech.
Many of the requests end up as a search in Bing on the default browser but Cortana does know a few action words
Take Open Play Get
For example :-
"Take a note" opens Onenote
"Open Calendar"
"Open Edge"
"Open Internet Explorer"
"Open Google Chrome"
"Open Guide" but be careful, one of the options is Uninstall
"Open [app] "
"Play Music"
"Get Weather" or "Find Weather"
"Get time UTC" or "Find time UTC" or "Time GMT"
Other websites:-
Cortana support page
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