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Voice Assistants and Artificial Intelligence in Education

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George Terzopoulos,

Maya SatratzemiAuthors Info & Claims

BCI'19: Proceedings of the 9th Balkan Conference on Informatics

Article No.: 34, Pages 1 - 6

https://doi.org/10.1145/3351556.3351588

Published: 26 September 2019 Publication History

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 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 the capabilities of voice assistants in the classroom and to present findings from previous studies.

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