A voice assistant is an AI-powered software that uses spoken language processing to perform tasks, provide information, or control devices through a conversational interface Some important milestones in the development of voice assistants are: - [[Apple Siri (2011)]] - [[Amazon Alexa (2014)]] - [[Microsoft Cortana (2014)]] - [[Google Assistant (2016)]] - [[Samsung Bixby (2017)]] - [[OpenAI Whisper (2022)]] - [[GPT-4o Advanced Voice (2024)]] - [[Google Gemini Live (2024)]] - [[Agentic Voice (2025-26)]]