The latest spate of update from Microsoft allows Android device users to let Cortana read emails as a part of her new routine. If you are an android user, you can now ask the smart voice assistant to read your daily emails, apart from the wide array of work that she already does.
After revamping its Teams service, Microsoft has now decided to combat Zoom and Google by releasing out new features and applications.
Can Cortana read emails?
Microsoft is actively trying to come up with new ways to enhance its business-centric features. Apart from releasing the new Teams feature that successfully creates a virtual environment to give off vibes of a real-time business meeting, it has now gotten Cortana read emails as her job too.
However, it is only limited to Android smartphones. So next time you’re baffled or too fatigued with your inbox flooding with emails, you can just ask Cortana to do the needful. Chop some vegetables while you let Cortana read emails. Life has never been easier.
How to Get Cortana to Read Emails?
Microsoft first added Play My Emails to Outlook and iOS, and now has finally added it to android devices. The new feature makes Play My Emails not exist as an independent app, but rather integrated into the inbox.
All you have to do is command Cortana to read emails. Cortana starts by briefing about the emails received and goes on to read them individually. You can interrupt her by saying “Hey Cortana” and compose a response for the same. A mere voice command is how to get Cortana read emails!
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How is it different from reading an email myself?
Cortana can detect whether the person emailing the user has mailed a time-sensitive issue. If you let Cortana read emails, she would scan through it, weed out time-sensitive emails, and then check the calendar and suggest scheduling a half-hour meeting as soon as possible.
She can also filter out emails after scanning them all, incorporating them into your calendar to ensure that they align with your meetings.
She can also connect emails to the calendar task list, pulling up your schedule while it goes through them. The all-new feature integrated Cortana goes hand in hand with other Outlook updates as well. Let Cortana read emails and manage your calendar while you utilize your free time more productively during this pandemic. And honestly, work can wait.
Microsoft’s take in stabilizing our lifestyles during unstabilized times
With no foreseeable end to the pandemic, it is quite evident that people are opting for work from home facilities. Microsoft is working this opportunity to its advantage, and releasing out a wide range of features that are mostly business-focused.
According to Microsoft, it is fundamentally trying to help its users gain more control of the day, spend less time preparing for meetings, and help organize their calendar to maintain day-to-day balance.
Final Word:
Microsoft’s take to invoke a more coherent, communicative, and interacting way of conversation between man and machine is commendable. Microsoft is also working with Amazon to integrate their respective digital assistants, and we’re keen to see how their relationship turns out in the future.
Will Microsoft limit Cortana’s evolution to just this? Or will it go ahead and pull off a similar deal with Google as well?
