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It is an assistive technology to meet
the requirements of the users.
There are lots of functions of the Virtual
Assistant. For example, organising
diaries, form project managing,
keeping notes, assisting with travel
trips and scheduling meetings to set
up conferences. The effective features
of Virtual Assistant are a good
communicator, proactive, organised,
flexible, self-motivation, discrete
and efficient. There are many famous
Virtual Assistants nowadays in the
market like Apple’s “Siri”, Windows’
“Cortana” and Amazon’s“Alexa”.
Siri is a part of Apple Incorporation
which helps people to open the apps and
to find locations for their destinations;
this program was developed by the
international centre for Artificial
Intelligence. The way to use it is to
record the user’s voice of the request
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to be executed by Siri.
Windows 10 Cortana Virtual Assistant
is a search box that displays topics and
file names that match what you type, so
it is very easy to search for online topics
or to find files that you want to locate
but forgot where you have saved them.
To sum up, Virtual Assistants are very
useful for people because it helps them
to open apps and to find the location of
different destinations around the world.
In my point of view, we all should
start using Virtual Assistants because it
makes our life easier and saves us plenty
of time and effort.
Noor Ali Sharar/ FP
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