Intelligent Digital Personal Assistant

Context:
- It can range from being an: English Language IPA, French Language IPA, German Language IPA, Chinese Language IPA, ....
Example(s):
- Apple Siri.
- Google Now.
- Microsoft Cortana.
- Amazon Echo.
- Baidu Duer.
- Facebook M.
- …
Counter-Example(s):
- IPSoft's Amelia Service.
- a Intelligent Human Assistant (such as a human adviser).
- an Autonomous Car.
- a Home Robot, such as a Roomba.
See: SILVIA, S Voice, Voice Mate, Google Now, Siri (Software), Linguistic Task, Watson System.

References

http://www.economist.com/news/business-and-finance/21664071-technology-firms-are-competing-become-consumers-personal-secretaries-big-implications
- QUOTE: Most real-life personal assistants do not need to worry about their jobs being threatened by technology — at least yet. Digital assistants serve as a hands-free way to search for information but struggle to complete actions that require more complex steps, such as booking flights. Your correspondent spent several days “employing” a variety of available digital assistants. Although they can find nearby restaurants and make a booking through OpenTable, they do not yet know her well enough or have the judgment to tell her which is the “best” Italian food. Echo, Amazon’s product, can recite the definition of “personal assistant” without hesitation, but had no idea how to respond when your correspondent asked whether Echo was her personal assistant.

http://www.apple.com/ios/siri/
- QUOTE: Talk to Siri as you would to a friend and it can help you get things done — like sending messages, placing calls, or making dinner reservations. You can ask Siri to show you the Orion constellation or to flip a coin. Siri works hands-free, so you can ask it to show you the best route home and what your ETA is while driving. And it’s connected to the world, working with Wikipedia, Yelp, Rotten Tomatoes, Shazam, and other online services to get you even more answers. The more you use Siri, the more you’ll realize how great it is. And just how much it can do for you.

(Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/intelligent_personal_assistant Retrieved:2014-1-13.
- An intelligent personal assistant is a mobile software agent that can perform tasks, or services, for an individual based on user input, location awareness, and the ability to access information from a variety of online sources (such as weather or traffic conditions, news, stock prices, user schedules, retail prices, etc.). Examples of such an agent are Cognitive Code's SILVIA, Samsung's S Voice, LG's Voice Mate, Google Now, HTC's Hidi and Apple’s Siri.