Feature Proposal: CortanaVoiceCommand/Cortana Skill

[mrlacey]

Having code to show how to easily set up launching the app with voice commands from Cortana would probably be very useful > V1.0 functionality to add. Thoughts?

[jamesmcroft]

I agree with this. Would recommend providing Cortana using the app service approach using background tasks.

Although won't this be replaced by the Cortana skills kit eventually?

[crutkas]

We were thinking this would be a Cortana Skill.

[jamesmcroft]

So now that I finally fully understand what Cortana Skills are doing, would we still like to consider this feature @crutkas? I think the main question is, where do we see Cortana features moving with it no longer being strictly tied to Windows.

[crutkas]

https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2017/P4114 is one way. I also think doing a direct line is something we should think about for cortana skills

what are you seeing maybe that i'm not.

[mrlacey]

Is this issue getting confused by the difference between launch commands (Cortana launches the app and passes information based on the search) and Cortana Skills (Cortana as an intermediary to a bot)?

[jamesmcroft]

I'm not sure if its a confusion. Understanding that Cortana is moving to other platforms and is no longer tied to Windows, is there point in having commands in your application when you can create a Cortana skill that has the ability to launch into your application and has a much richer experience?

[mrlacey]

I thought that the purpose of the issue was to add support for launching an app from Cortana. If the expectation is that Cortana Skills will be used to launch apps, won't this be via a URL launch and so be covered by #180 (intercepting launching a webpage) Or do we need a separate issue to consider adding a custom scheme/protocol?

As a UWP project doesn't it make sense we add the things that UWP apps can do and that includes Cortana Voice Commands.

[crutkas]

asking cortana skills team on best practices / a sample we can look at.

[crutkas]

The schema would be just like you would do if using protocol activation of a skill. ala myAwesomeApp://.....

Docs that has lots of examples of launching websites, apps, and other features here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cortana/tutorials/bot-skills/bot-entity-channel-data

See build demo. The sample is here: https://github.com/Microsoft/Cortana-Skills-Samples-Build-2017/tree/master/B8031

https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2017/B8030 https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2017/B8031

[touseefbsb]

this would be very useful for the future projects, so I guess it should be included ASAP

[crutkas]

Need scheme launch first #506 :)