" Hey, Cortana" used to work at 1st, then stopped?

dencal said:

Yes I had seen it, and yes I had already confirmed it made no difference, you still need to click on mic.
M$ state its only turned off to save battery life on laptops

Not true - I have just fixed it to work as it should.

I got Cortana to learn my voice by clicking on "Learn my voice" and reading out the 6 phrases. I rebooted as Cortana couldn't access the internet, and it now responds to "Hey Cortana" fine. I do not have to use keyboard or mouse at all.

I guess it was the responding "To anyone" that was the problem for me - it didn't understand my accent.

It should not be necessary to click on the microphone button if this setting is enabled.

lx07 said:

Not true - I have just fixed it to work as it should.

I got Cortana to learn my voice by clicking on "Learn my voice" and reading out the 6 phrases. I rebooted as Cortana couldn't access the internet, and it now responds to "Hey Cortana" fine. I do not have to use keyboard or mouse at all.

I guess it was the responding "To anyone" that was the problem for me - it didn't understand my accent.

It should not be necessary to click on the microphone button if this setting is enabled.

No such luck on my part....will not go beyond first reply on recording of six phrases, yet works perfectly when clicking on mic.
Also cannot relocate button from anyone to me.

dencal said:

No such luck on my part....will not go beyond first reply on recording of six phrases, yet works perfectly when clicking on mic.
Also cannot relocate button from anyone to me.

Perhaps that is the key to it? It responds to "Hey Cortana" for me if set like this:



but if I switch it back to "To anyone" then it doesn't respond (but after clicking the mike it still understands).

Just speculation on my part though...

hTconeM9user said:

Thank you at last got it working
Done all 6 things she put up but it works on mine
just had to repress learn my voice
Once done it then alters to Only me

So you can say "Hey Cortana, what's the time?" and she tells you without pressing the microphone button? I had to reboot after teaching my voice but it works like that again for me now.

Cannot change button or record past first recording, yet works perfectly on mic

hTconeM9user said:

Yes and ask her to get me this forum, or face book did not need to reboot
Also the news or weather

Well that is good news :) Let's hope relearning works for @supashaka also.

I was thinking the accent may be the problem. I set everything (speech, locale etc) to US to get Cortana to work but I don't sound particularly American. Even if I try saying "Hey Cortana" in what I imagine is a really strong Robert De Niro accent it doesn't work if set "To anyone" not "To me". Could be my accent is still rubbish though.

dencal said:

Cannot change button or record past first recording, yet works perfectly on mic

When I was trying to speak the six phrases it kept giving up. The first one worked, then the second would say "I'm not getting this" or some such. Third would work after 2 goes, Forth it couldn't understand me again and so on.

I had to keep clicking on the Microphone button to get it going again as during this process it seems to turn it off if it can't understand you. I did make it the end eventually though. You could try that if it doesn't say "Listening..." while you are trying to speak the phrase it wants. I also picked up my laptop and talked loudly right into the microphone hole but I'm not sure if that was required as it seems it can hear me fine at a normal distance and voice now.

Bloody hell...shouted out loud right into the microphone.....it now works.....thanks gents, I have learnt something new.