Microsoft revised its voice control. It developed a system called Conversational Understanding (CU) , the elements of spoken language with a dictionary, a grammar and machine learning combine While standing still no device available with which to test the new voice control to leave, but that will change soon, "said Zig Serafin, general manager of Microsoft's Speech Group. "Until now we have to understand us focused on what users say," said Serafin. The approach is comparable with a good ear. "Have I heard what you said while you were out the door and I heard it well enough to give you an answer?"

The next step is, in words trigger more than just run a web search, a phone call or an app. An intelligent system should cover meanings. For this purpose it was necessary to bring different language technologies, Serafin. Microsoft for its combined voice control technologies such as TellMe , the Bing-service 411and the associated iPhone app, the voice search of Windows 7 Phone and Sync . The motion controller Kinect for the Xbox 360 is Microsoft's first implementation of a continuously open microphone system that responds to voice commands.

"Play (Song)" Simple instructions according to or "parents call" can be processed locally, for more complicated commands, Microsoft pinged. CU is the idea behind the integration of data from third party sites or private feeds to user requests to add context. The approach goes beyond a simple search, said Ilya Bukshteyn, Microsoft's senior director for marketing at TellMe. "Understanding the intent behind a search, will be the key - instead of finding just data." It's about information that are stored in different locations, combine a sensible way.