Integrating Cortana with the Universal Windows Platform

Three mobile platforms, iOS, Android, and Windows, has been improving their digital assistants ("Siri" on iOS platform, "Google Now" on Android, and "Cortana" on Windows) very frequently. All these digital assistants offer search device data and Cloud-based information. Cortana's voice command features integrated into Windows 10 enable developers to give users convenient ways to access data. Cortana offers integration into Bing, Office 365, and local data sources. With a wide range of features, Cortana helps users organize and manage their data easily. Cortana also exposes an interface to developers that permits applications to integrate into the Cortana search experience. In this article, I'll walk through you Cortana integration with the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) travel app.

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Speech to Text conversion

I am now working on Speech to Text conversion. .NET 4.0 has System.Speech Library.
Refer following articles if you are interested.....

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/expert/moskowitz_02september23.mspx -- Microsoft Article
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/ssrinivas/SpeeechRecognitionusingCSharp11222005054918AM/SpeeechRecognitionusingCSharp.aspx - Sample example
http://www.dotnetforce.com/Content.aspx?t=a&n=216 - Sample app
http://www.15seconds.com/issue/021126.htm - Article
http://www.codeguru.com/vb/gen/vb_misc/plugins/article.php/c11019__2/VB-and-Voice-Recognition.htm - Article
http://www.codeguru.com/vb/gen/vb_misc/plugins/article.php/c11019__2/VB-and-Voice-Recognition.htm - Article
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3890102/c-and-microsoft-speech-recognition-and-speech-synthesis - Blog
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/nipuntomar/3316/ - Test to Speech
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/nipuntomar/3385/ - Speech to Text
http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/84789-convertion-of-speech-to-text-using-visual-studio-8/ - Code
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/uploadfile/mahesh/222/default.aspx - Code
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3228554/i-want-to-convert-speech-to-text-in-wpf-how-can-i-do-this - Code
http://franksworld.com/blog/archive/2009/06/30/11617.aspx - code
http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/134436-speech-to-text-conversion/ - code
http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/206629-speech-to-text-conversion-in-c-sharp/ - code