Voice assistant Cortana, which debuted in April of this year with the new version of the operating system Windows Phone 8.1, understands quite a large number of verbal commands that greatly simplify the use of a smartphone. Meanwhile, millions of people around the world have long been accustomed to use the phone as a music player. It turned out that Cortana realizes a variety of handling the user in any way connected with your music. Unfortunately, currently available for Cortana Russian-speaking region, but through the simple steps anyone can activate an assistant on your Windows-based device and try out a variety of command of the English language.
| Team | Action |
| Play music | Starts playback of the current playlist from the place where he was stopped |
| Play <genre name> | Begins to play the tracks of the genre |
| Play <name of the artist> | Begins to play the tracks of the musician |
| Play <song title> | Starts playing this song |
| Play <album title> | Starts playing the specified album |
| Pause the music | Stops playing music |
| Resume music | Resumes playback of the current track |
| Shuffle the music | Starts playing the tracks in random order |
| Play next track | Starts playback of the next track |
| Play previous track | Starts playback of the previous track |
| Play <name of the playlist> | Starts playback of the playlist |
| What is playing? | Launches music recognition service |