Virtual Assistant: Alexa, Echo, Siri, Google Home

Wouldn’t it be great to have someone take your orders and execute the tasks as asked? Just like an assistant who follows what their boss asks them to do for example, makes calls for them, makes a reminder of the important things and schedules tasks. Taking it one step further, if that someone could play music of your choice, turn on or off the lights in your house, find your lost phone, tell you jokes, stories, turn on or off your TV, it would be fascinating.Appointing a human being to accomplish all these tasks might be daunting. Moreover, it would be much more interesting if it’s a device who can be made to do all these tasks. In the day and age of artificial intelligence, this is a reality and humans can make a device do things for them.

We have our virtual assistants in-built in our desktops, mobiles, tablets. For example, Apple has Siri, Google has Google Assistant, and, Microsoft has Cortana. This usually requires pressing a particular button to be activated. To turn on the Google assistant, you have to touch and hold the home button. It detects voice, recognizes that is being said, browses the internet and finds desired results.

The digital virtual assistant that is penetrating the Indian homes is the Smart Speakers. They are voice command based wireless speakers with artificial intelligence as its backbone. They are completely independent of physical touch to turn them on. Making a device do the household work like turning on or off the lights or TV and more, instead of a remote control feels surreal. What Smart Speakers do is they connect with various electronic devices around the house and control them as per your instructions. They have built-in virtual assistants. They are available in different sizes.

List of things a smart speaker can do:
Play the audiobooks, music, and, podcasts of your choice.
·Tell you jokes, stories.
·Find your lost Phone
·Make grocery lists for you
·Control Netflix
·Send WhatsApp messages
·Turn on/off lights in your home
·Read you recipes while cooking
To think of it, installing a smart speaker can give you an amazing experience.
Needless to say, virtual assistants have definitely improved the lifestyle. Smart Speakers are transforming a home into a smart home. Although, most of the growth of Smart Speakers is in the English speaking countries, nonetheless, these assistants are equipped to speak in other foreign languages as well. The future looks very promising with us being assisted virtually.

Read here : https://beebom.com/best-smart-speakers-india/ to know about the unique features of smart speakers available in India.