What is Cortana and how does it work?

What Is Cortana? Cortana is a virtual assistant that can help you perform tasks. You can use Cortana to set a reminder, schedule a meeting, search the internet, find answers to questions, locate an item on your computer or Windows phone, manage your tasks, and much more. Who Is the Voice of Cortana?

Does Cortana have a wake word?

The wake word has been re-enabled in the latest version of Cortana in Windows. If you're on Windows 10, version 2004, be sure that you've updated to build 19041.329 or later to use the wake word with Cortana. For earlier builds, you can still click on the microphone button to use your voice with Cortana.

What data is collected by Cortana Enterprise Services?

Cortana enterprise services process queries from the user, Office data needed to fulfill the user's request, and other telemetry generated by Microsoft systems to run the service. The data collected by Cortana enterprise services include the text representation of the user’s spoken queries (i.e., transcriptions from speech recognition).