Cortana Skills Documentation
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Get Started
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Build a skill
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Learn about Cortana Skills Kit
An introduction to Cortana Skills.
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Create your first skill
Skills are speech-enabled bots. This section identifies the Bot Framework components that you use to create a skill.
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Personalize your skill
Learn how to get information that Cortana knows about the user so you can personalize the user’s experience with your skill.
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Add authentication to your skill
If your skill uses a service that requires OAuth, learn how easy it is to have Cortana manage the flow for you.
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Language understanding
Learn how LUIS and Cognitive Services can help your skill understand language.
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Make your skill smarter
Add intelligence to skills with Bot Framework and Microsoft Cognitive Services.
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Design skills
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Principles of Cortana skill design
Learn about good voice and UI design that’s essential for a positive user experience.
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Invocation name guidelines
Lean about the do’s and don’ts of naming your skill and the invocation phrases that users use to invoke it.
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Performance guidelines
Learn about design choices that impact performance.
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- Test skills
- Publish skills
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Build a skill
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Reference
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Speech Synthesis Markup Language
Learn how to use SSML to control characteristics of synthetic speech such as pitch, rate, volume, and pronunciation.
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User profile and contextual information
Provide a personalized exper-ience to end uses by leveraging user profile and contextual information available in Cortana.
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Supported locales
Find out about the list of locales that Cortana supports.
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Resources
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Support
Having an issue with your skill? Find out where you can get help.
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FAQs
Learn what others are asking and see answers to their questions.
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Terms of use guidelines
Get a sample Terms of Use.
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Privacy policy guidelines
Learn about Cortana’s privacy policy requirements and where you can get help generating one.
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Samples
Get a list of samples that can help you get started using the different skill features.
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Blog
Stay current with what’s happening in the Cortana Skills world such as new features and upcoming events.
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