Voice Assistants and Smart Speakers in Everyday Life and in Education
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...
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Vilnius University
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5fa997c7945f46ad95828ac3915e1d832022-12-21T22:56:18ZengVilnius UniversityInformatics in Education1648-58312335-89712020-09-0119347349010.15388/infedu.2020.21Voice Assistants and Smart Speakers in Everyday Life and in EducationGeorge TERZOPOULOS0Maya SATRATZEMI1Department of Applied Informatics, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, GreeceDepartment of Applied Informatics, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, GreeceIn 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.https://infedu.vu.lt/journal/INFEDU/article/659/infoartificial intelligencesmart speakersvoice assistantseducation |
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| title | Voice Assistants and Smart Speakers in Everyday Life and in Education |
| title_full | Voice Assistants and Smart Speakers in Everyday Life and in Education |
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| title_short | Voice Assistants and Smart Speakers in Everyday Life and in Education |
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| topic | artificial intelligence smart speakers voice assistants education |
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