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Voice Assistants and Smart Speakers in Everyday Life and in Education
Voice Assistants and Smart Speakers in Everyday Life and in Education

Author(s): George TERZOPOULOS, Maya SATRATZEMI
Subject(s): Education, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Vilniaus Universiteto Leidykla
Keywords: artificial intelligence; smart speakers; voice assistants; education;

Summary/Abstract: In recent years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has shown significant progress and its potential is growing. An application area of AI is Natural Language Processing (NLP). Voice assistants incorporate AI by using cloud computing and can communicate with the users in natural language. Voice assistants are easy to use and thus there are millions of devices that incorporates them in households nowadays. Most common devices with voice assistants are smart speakers and they have just started to be used in schools and universities. The purpose of this paper is to study how voice assistants and smart speakers are used in everyday life and whether there is potential in order for them to be used for educational purposes.

  • Issue Year: 19/2020
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 473-490
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: English