Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: Ci gaban Cortana ya fara ne a cikin 2009 a cikin ƙungiyar samfuran Microsoft Speech tare da babban manajan Zig Serafin da Babban Masanin Kimiyya Larry Heck. Heck da Serafin sun kafa hangen nesa, manufa, da kuma dogon shiri na mataimakin sirri na dijital na Microsoft kuma sun gina ƙungiyar da ke da ƙwarewa don ƙirƙirar samfuran farko na Cortana. Wasu daga cikin manyan masu bincike a cikin waɗannan ƙoƙarin farko sun haɗa da masu binciken Microsoft Research Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Andreas Stolcke, da Malcolm Slaney. mai haɓaka software na bincike Madhu Chinthakunta, da mai ƙirar ƙwarewar mai amfani Lisa Stifelman. Don haɓaka mataimakin dijital na Cortana, ƙungiyar ta yi hira da mataimakan mutum na mutum. Waɗannan tambayoyin sun yi wahayi zuwa ga fasali na musamman a cikin Cortana, gami da fasalin "notebook" na mataimakin. Asali Cortana an yi nufin kawai ya zama sunan sirri, amma takarda kai a kan Windows Phone ta UserVoice site cewa ya tabbatar da zama rare sanya sunan sirri hukuma.  Tambaya: Wane mataki ne ya sa Cortana ya zama sunan hukuma?
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