About various voice assistant used in today's world

1. VOICE ASSISTANT
Presented to
Dr. Priya VijPresented by
Mansi Kadlag
Chandan Kadu

2. Road Map
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What is VA
History
How VA works
Pros and
Cons
Examples of VA

3. What is Virtual Assistant
• Also called AI assistant.
• A Virtual Personal Assistant is an application
program that understand the natural language and
complete the electronic task for end user.
• VPA allows mobile professionals to remotely
access and manage information over telephones.
• VPA is combination
- Automatic Speech Recognition
- Natural Language Processing
- Inter Process Communication
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5. How Voice Assistant work ????
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6. Pros and Cons
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Pros
• Users can talk on the phone without putting it near to
the ears
• Help you save time
• Assist in phone operation tasks
• Can control multiple products efficiently
• Help users that suffer from Physical Impairment
Cons
• Smart Home Devices are Expensive
• Leads to lost concentration on the task in hand
• Privacy Concerns

7. Examples of Virtual Assistant
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8. Siri
• Siri is, perhaps, the most widely known (and the most popular)
personal assistant for iOS smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, and
smart TVs.
• It allows its users to get answers to their questions and performs
tasks related to their device functionality using voice commands,
all in an interactive form.
• It is activated by pressing and holding down the ‘Home’ button on
iPhones and iPads.
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9. Siri
Advantages
• Can have a direct dialogue;
• Knows its way around news and recommendations;
• Interacts with some ‘smart home’ components;
• Simple in use.
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Disadvantages
• Doesn’t interact with most third-party apps;
• Sometimes freezes and gets too slow.

10. Cortana
• Cortana is one more widely known virtual assistant for
Windows, iOS, and Android devices.
• Its most distinctive feature is the well-designed
mechanism of interacting with users – Cortana makes
good jokes, responds in a witty way to trivial questions,
and some of its answers can even be in the form of a
poem.
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11. Cortana
Advantages
• A wide range of available tasks;
• Deep integration with Microsoft Office apps;
• Integration with third-party apps.
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Disadvantages
• Less features available for mobile version users
than for desktop version ones.

12. Alexa
• Alexa is a voice assistant created by Amazon.
• Therefore, Alexa is supported only by Amazon devices,
such as Echo, Echo Dot, Tap, Fire TV, etc.
• With this intelligent helper, these devices can have any
conversation with real people and fulfill such tasks as
playing music, creating to-do lists, setting alarms, reading
the latest news, etc.
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13. Alexa
Advantages
• Can have a lively meaningful conversation;
• Can become the main controller for a smart home
system;
• Can be integrated with third-party software.
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Disadvantages
• The task list is quite limited
• Is not supported by iOS and Android mobile
devices.

14. Google assistant
• Google Now is among today’s most well-thought-out and
technologically advanced AI-based services.
• Thanks to the efforts of the best development minds on
Google’s team, this iOS and Android assistant can
analyze your emails, search history, give directions, and
interact with other apps efficiently (and those apps don’t
necessarily have to be Google ones).
• The availability of Google Now mobile versions for iOS
and Android is a huge advantage as well.
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15. Google Assistant
Advantages
• A huge range of tasks that can be fulfilled
• Well-integrated with Google services
• Integration with third-party apps.
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Disadvantages
• Provides users with a lot of unnecessary
information.

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17. Thank You