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Voice Assistants

As voice assistant devices continue to innovate and reach new levels of quality and accuracy, they are increasing in importance and popularity.

What are voice assistants?

It is a digital personal assistant that uses voice recognition, and natural language processing to decipher requests and commands.

How do voice assistants work?

Voice assistant devices such as Alexa, Cortana or Google Assistant, are activated at the mention of a specific keyword or voice command. Once it is activated, it either answers or obeys your commands by connecting to the internet, taking down notes, putting reminders in your calender, settting timers, alerts, etc. Basically, anything a personal assistant would do, they do.