But will it understand you?

Voice control offers a faster way to manage your time and inbox.

Interacting with mobile devices by voice can be more efficient than using a keyboard, experts say.

Someone sending a voice message on a smartphone.

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Microsofts update will be rolling out in the coming weeks to iOS users of Outlook.

One of the core challenges of speech is that currently there is no one size fits all model.

The new features let you do more with less work, according to Microsoft.

Satya Nadella demonstrates Cortana, a new digital personal assistant function for Windows phones, as he delivers a keynote address during the 2014 Microsoft Build developer conference.

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For example, Googles smart compose suggests things you should write in Gmail.

LinkedIn already gives generated short answers as a choice inside its messaging framework, he noted.

Microsofts new Cortana features build on recent advances in the field of natural language processing, Weissgraeber said.

The biggest benefit with conversational AI is efficiencywe speak three times faster than we punch in.

But self-supervised learning on large amounts of audio might be the solution."