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

I have turned on the slider to activate Cortana to respond to my " Hey, Cortana" but unless I click on the microphone icon she doesn't hear me?

I don't think it's a mic problem since t works fine with Cortana otherwise. I've tried other people's suggestions without any luck.

supashaka said:

I have turned on the slider to activate Cortana to respond to my " Hey, Cortana" but unless I click on the microphone icon she doesn't hear me?

I don't think it's a mic problem since t works fine with Cortana otherwise. I've tried other people's suggestions without any luck.

Welcome to the forum.
Open Settings, in box "find a setting" at top type Micro, click on Microphone Setup then Speech, Setup for speech recognition, see attachment.

dencal said:

Welcome to the forum.
Open Settings, in box "find a setting" at top type Micro, click on Microphone Setup then Speech, Setup for speech recognition, see attachment.

Thanks for the reply, I already did that. Cortana works fine except for the specific command

supashaka said:

I have turned on the slider to activate Cortana to respond to my " Hey, Cortana" but unless I click on the microphone icon she doesn't hear me?

What "slider" ?

Mine works exactly you described.......................
click at the mic icon first then say whatever you want to tell her.

Adding.................. that applies to both of my 2 laptops, Win 10 Home and Win 10 Pro.
There is nothing wrong with that.

Now I'm wondering if the voice activation phrase seems to work for anyone at all! People seem to be confusing it with me asking how to get Cortana to work at all.

" Hey, Cortana" is a phrase which should 'wake up' Cortana so you don't have to click on her mic button. There is a slider to turn this feature on in cortana's settings.

I know this is a known problem since early builds so I thought either Microsoft would have sorted it out or people would have solved it by now? Hope someone can help out!

supashaka said:

Now I'm wondering if the voice activation phrase seems to work for anyone at all! People seem to be confusing it with me asking how to get Cortana to work at all.

" Hey, Cortana" is a phrase which should 'wake up' Cortana so you don't have to click on her mic button. There is a slider to turn this feature on in cortana's settings.

I know this is a known problem since early builds so I thought either Microsoft would have sorted it out or people would have solved it by now? Hope someone can help out!

There is no such setting in Cortana....as all replies have stated....click on Microphone to activate.

dencal said:

There is no such setting in Cortana....as all replies have stated....click on Microphone to activate.

There is this:



It used to work for me (respond to "Hey Cortana") but I just tested it and it doesn't any more - I also need to click on Microphone. Not sure when it stopped working though as I don't normally use it.

lx07 said:

There is this:



It used to work for me (respond to "Hey Cortana") but I just tested it and it doesn't any more - I also need to click on Microphone. Not sure when it stopped working though as I don't normally use it.

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