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Calendar Delegation with Alexa
| International Journal of Computer Applications |
| Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
| Volume 174 - Number 29 |
| Year of Publication: 2021 |
| Authors: Priya Andurkar, Akshat Pandey, Pranjali Deshpande |
10.5120/ijca2021921213
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Priya Andurkar, Akshat Pandey, Pranjali Deshpande . Calendar Delegation with Alexa. International Journal of Computer Applications. 174, 29 ( Apr 2021), 18-21. DOI=10.5120/ijca2021921213
Abstract
Electronic calendar applications currently are ubiquitous and used by most organizations to schedule events and meetings. Common commercial applications are Google Calendar, Apple iCal, and Microsoft Outlook, which are primitive in comparison with the state-of-the-art scheduling algorithms. Meetings are an essential aspect of collaboration and decision making within organizations and scheduling them is often a time-consuming task involving a lot of communication and tedious information processing. Proper scheduling of meetings using calendars of employees in organizations can lead to efficient time management of employees and the completion of more tasks. The system aims at implementing an intelligent and autonomous calendar delegator that uses the popular virtual assistant, Amazon Alexa, entrusted with the task to schedule meetings of participants without their intervention. Voice-user interfaces (VUI) use speech recognition technology to allow users to interact with their peripherals with their voices. VUI enables hands-free, efficient interactions that are more human in nature and has led to the development of famous Virtual Assistants such as Amazon Alexa, Apple's Siri, Google Now and Microsoft's Cortana.
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