voice first ai

Microsoft’s new Copilot avatar, Mico, arrived as a deliberate attempt to solve a decades‑old design problem: how to give artificial intelligence a useful face without repeating the interruption, annoyance and misplaced intimacy that turned Clippy into a cultural punchline. The company introduced...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot rollout gives the assistant a literal face — Mico, a small, animated, non‑human avatar that appears in voice interactions — and the move crystallizes a strategic shift: Copilot is being recast from a faceless query box into a persistent, multimodal companion that...

Microsoft's Copilot just got a face: Mico, an animated, voice‑first avatar that Microsoft unveiled as the centerpiece of its Copilot Fall Release, is designed to make conversations with AI feel warmer, more expressive, and more purposeful while arriving alongside major features such as long‑term...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot refresh puts a deliberately playful face on Windows 11 AI: an animated avatar called Mico that appears in Copilot’s voice mode, changes color and shape to signal listening or thinking, and is explicitly designed as an optional, friendlier way to make voice-first...

Windows keeps getting updated, and the quickest way to know what it’s doing on your PC is to check the version — a step that takes seconds but can shape whether your apps run, your data stays protected, and whether features like Copilot are even available to you. This practical guide explains...

A quietly radical idea—don’t put another screen on your face; put intelligence in your ears—has surfaced from inside Microsoft’s design ranks and, in doing so, reopened a long-running debate about how AI should meet the world. The Copilot Veja concept, an unofficial design study by Microsoft...