DESKTOP VIRTUAL ASSISTANT
This paper gives an overview idea of a personal-assistant for Windows based systems, designed to provide a user-friendly interface for carrying out a variety of tasks by employing certain well-defined commands.
Abstract
AI is the core specialization of making smart machines, especially computer programs. It relates with the familiar task of using computers to understand human intelligence. AI is broadly classified the study of computations that permitfor perception, reason and action. This paper gives an overview idea of a personal-assistant for Windows based systems. The system draws its inspiration from virtual assistants like Cortana for Windows and Siri for iOS. It has been designed to provide a user-friendly interface for carrying out a variety of tasks by employing certain well-defined commands. As a personal assistant, this paper focuses upon assistance of end-user with day-to-day activities like general human conversation, searching queries on Google, searching for videos, retrieving images, live weather conditions, word meanings, searching for medicine details, health recommendations based on symptoms and reminding the user about the scheduled events and tasks. The user statements/commands are analyzed with the help ofmachine learning to give an optimal solution.