Educational use of Voice Assistants and Smart Speakers
Thanasis Tsourakas, George Terzopoulos, Stefanos K. Goumas · Journal of Engineering Science and Technology Review · 2021
Recently, voice assistants have become very popular since smart speakers incorporate them.This technology is very userfriendly since interaction is carried out using natural language.Voice assistants are being used in everyday life and their technology is constantly evolving, providing new services for the users.Since this technology is used in everyday life by many users, perhaps voice assistants can be used as educational tools.However, there are significant privacy concerns and researchers have discovered serious security risks, although there are studies that provide solutions for these issues.In this study, we focus on the educational use of voice assistants in different levels of education starting from primary school to higher education.Although the popularity of voice assistants is high, there are not many studies regarding their educational potential.