Cortana Skills Kit empowers developers to build intelligent experiences for millions of users - Building Apps for Windows

Today, we are pleased to announce the public preview of the Cortana Skills Kit which allows developers to easily create intelligent, personalized experiences for Cortana. Our vision for Cortana has always been to create a digital personal assistant that's available to users across all their devices, whenever and wherever they may need an extra hand to be more productive and get things done. With the new Cortana Skills Kit, developers can join in delivering that vision and reach millions of Cortana users across platforms including Windows 10, Android, iOS and soon on even more devices and form factors -- like Xbox, the Harman Kardon Invoke smart speaker and inside cars and mixed reality devices. To build a Cortana skill, developers can create their bot's conversational logic using the Microsoft Bot Framework, and publish it to the new Cortana Channel within the Bot Framework, bringing speech capabilities to skills. Developers can understand users' natural input and build custom machine-learned language models through LUIS.ai, and add intelligence with the power of Cognitive Services.