Gabriela :Good afternoon, Professor Carolyn

Villasante. Good afternoon colleagues. Today,

Gabriela Yoplac and my partner, Brenda Gariazo,
are going to talk about virtual assistants.

Brenda : These are the best known Alexa by

Amazon, Google Assistant by Google, Cortana by
Windows, and Siri by Apple.

Gabriela : we start with Alexa, Alexa is the voice-

controlled virtual assistant created by Amazon to be
used. You start by invoking it by saying its name, at
which point the speaker or device in which it is
integrated will start listening. Then you have to say
a command with your voice, and the assistant will
recognize what you ask and tell you an answer. now
the activities you can do with alexa
in the past people used to write their shopping list
on a piece of paper but now people usually tell
alexa their shopping list and she writes it down
also in the past people used to buy alarms,
nowadays with the help of alexa you can set alarms
for whatever you want , a lot of people think that
there is only alexa since in these times she has
become very famous but in fact there is also the
google assistant that is from google
Google Assistant is a virtual assistant powered by
Artificial Intelligence by Google that is primarily
available on mobile and smart home devices.
google assistant activities are more or less similar to
those of alexa, for example, before people used to
look for information in books, to make reservations
they used to call by phone but actually people
usually tell google asitand for these activities
in the past also people used to turn on the radio to
listen to your favorite songs but actually thanks to
google assistant you can tell it what your favorite
song is on

brenda : now some people think these are the only

ones because you are not mistaken, since there is
also Cortana, Cortana is a virtual assistant created
by Microsoft for Windows 10, Windows 10 Mobile,
Windows Phone 8.1, Invoke smart speaker,
Microsoft Band, Xbox One, Windows Mixed Reality
In the past, people used to write letters to compose
an important message, but now you can do it
together with Cortana.
In the past people used to write down important
dates on a physical calendar, but now people can
tell Cortana to write it down. now we have the
oldest and most famous this siri, Siri is an artificial
intelligence with personal assistant functions
sometimes with its own personality for iOS, macOS,
tvOS and watchOS.
the things you can do with siri are varied for
example.
in the past people used to use planners to jot down
certain tasks, but now people often jot down
together with siri
also before we used to watch a football game or
other sports for hours, but nowadays people can
tell siri to tell you the final result
Gabriela :Now, as you may have already noticed,
the activities of these assistants are more or less
similar, so we are going to compare them white as ,
next.
alexa by amazon is as popular as google assistant
since we are talking about two big companies
the google assistant is not as expensive as alexa, at
least in a price comparison that i did, however for
me both are expensive

and the last

google assistant is as smart as alexa, but i like them

both, and i would like to have them both

brenda . Comparisons between Siri and Cortana are

as follows
Cortana is not as popular as Siri because although
Microsoft is a very famous company, her assistant is
not known.

Cortana is not Siri's age, in fact Siri is the oldest of

all these assistants.

Siri is just as organized as Cortana as they help you

to do many activities.
Gabriela : In conclusion, Google Assistant and Alexa
are as useful to us as Cortana and Siri are to people.

Brenda :ok this is all for today, thanks for watching,

and listening