The Invoke Smart Speaker Brings Microsoft's Cortana AI to Your Living Room

If the future of computing really does look like Her, and everyone will soon be talking to their devices and falling in love with the soothing voices in our ear, Microsoft is sitting pretty. Or at least, it ought to be: Its Cortana virtual assistant already integrates seamlessly into Windows 10, works on iOS and Android, and will start showing up in cars soon. It's good for work, good for play, even has a cool name. Yet Cortana gets left out of the voice assistant in-crowd, because it's missing one key thing: a smart speaker like the Google Home or Amazon Echo. Those in-home devices have become the first place most people use these assistants, and Microsoft just doesn't have one.