I have purchased the Guile 3d virtual assistant program (using current AI programming) and have enjoyed it for the most part but it's somewhat limited without using supplementary software. I was particularly attracted by the avatar part of it. However, the avatar is fairly limited in movement.
https://guile3d.com/
I'm really hoping that when Cortana comes out it will tie in to Kinect for Windows and have an avatar. I also think it will be helpful for the system to have improved speech to text capabilities. Certainly this should be on a much improved scale over what is included in Windows itself. If Microsoft does this well it could be a knockout punch for any other operating system available today.
Although I'm not a programmer, I was curious what people in the field think the chances are that this could happen.
Thanks.