How to Enable Cortana in India

Last Updated: January 7, 2021

Cortana is one of the intelligent personal assistants developed by Microsoft Corporation for Windows Phone 8.1. Cortana's features include being able to set reminders, recognize natural voice without the user having to input a predefined series of commands, and answer questions using information from Bing (like current weather and traffic conditions, sports scores, and biographies). Cortana is not officially available in all languages for all countries. Let us see how to enable Cortana for Windows Phones in India.

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Set the Speech Language

The users in India can use the English (United Kingdom) speech language to use Cortana.
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Set a proper region and the proper locale. You can set a proper setting for Region and locale in your Windows Phone in order to use.
- Go to Settings > Region and ensure that the region is set to INDIA
- Go to Settings > Speech
- For most users in India, the default speech language is set as English (India)
- Tap on the English (United Kingdom) speech language under speech language drop down list.
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Once you tap on English (United Kingdom) , the speech language shall be downloaded. To check the process of download and install,
- Go to Settings > Phone Update. You can see the download progress of the update.
- After downloading, if you have scheduled to install the updates on the time basis, the speech language will be installed at the specified time.
- To install the update immediately tap the Install button.
- This process will install the update and restart the phone.
Hence the phone will migrate the old data in roughly about 21 steps.
Windows Phone will show a message saying " Update Successful ... Additional Language Support" (refer the image). Once you get a message similar to the image, your speech language i.e. English (United Kingdom) would have been installed on to the phone.
Change the speech language by navigating to Settings > Speech and tap on the speech language drop down list to display the languages and tap on English (United Kingdom) to set it as the default language.

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Turn on Location Services

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Cortana requires a full time Location Service in order to function properly. Hence one must turn the location services " ON ", prior to the activation of Cortana. To turn on location settings,
- Navigate to Settings > Location.
- Slide the location services button to " ON ".

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Activate Cortana

Tap the Cortana live tile in the start screen (or) slide to all apps, select Cortana (or) tap the Search Button in the Navigation Bar.
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Cortana will process a few steps and ask you to type your name.
- Type in your name and tap on the next button.
- Cortana will pronounce your name.
- Tap the next button to proceed to the next step.
So she would like to know about your interests. She might propose you some questions. Answer to all that she questions you.
You can communicate with Cortana either through voice or by typing. Tap the microphone icon to record your voice proposing a question to her. She might do an internet search or provide an audio simulated reply. Alternatively you can also type in the text box which will not provide an audio output.
Suppose you ask Cortana to predict weather of the day you can say or type What is today's weather like? and she'll give you the weather forecast for the entire day and based on your location.
and she'll give you a list telling what she can do.

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You may have to go into Settings and change the country (location). You may also need to turn on your device's location feature.

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Requirements

The Windows Phone in which Cortana needs to be installed must have Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1 with OS Version 8.10.14141.167 or higher. You can check the OS version by navigating to Settings > About > More information .
While speaking with Cortana, the user must speak with the English (United Kingdom) accent or Cortana finds it difficult to recognize the language.
The phone must be updated to its latest update release with Lumia Denim update for Windows Phone 8.1 in order to enable Cortana.

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Cortana answers funny and tricky questions like Who is your father? , Which is the best operating system? , Do I have to carry an umbrella today , Tell me some petrol stations nearby! and more.

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You can make Cortana to remind you, or make an appointment or toggle your settings, such as Turn Flight Mode Off , Turn WiFi On , etc.

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For the list of commands that can be spoken to Cortana, click here .

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Warnings

Cortana requires Location Services. Only when Location services are on, Cortana will work.

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Cortana requires an active internet connection for internet based questions. Settings can be toggled when the phone is not connected to internet too.

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How to Enable Cortana in India

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Set the Speech Language

Turn on Location Services

Activate Cortana

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