The curious case of the Cortana speaker: Harmon Kardon Invoke review

If digital assistants were actual people, there would be no place to sit in my living room. Between Siri, Google Assistant, and Alexa, things are already pretty crowded. Now, Microsoft's Cortana wants in, and it brought its own home, a speaker called the Harmon Kardon Invoke. Where does it fit into the invisible assistant landscape? Microsoft first introduced its Cortana assistant back in 2013, naming its assistant after a similar, disembodied AI character from the video game Halo. Its big year, however, was 2015, when it made its way onto Windows 10 computers, Xbox consoles, as well as the other big mobile platforms, Android and iOS via dedicated apps.