In recent years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has shown significant progress and its potential is growing. An application area of AI is Natural Language Processing (NLP). Voice assistants incorporate AI by using cloud computing and can communicate with the users in natural language. Voice assistants are easy to use and thus there are millions of devices that incorporates them in households nowadays. Most common devices with voice assistants are smart speakers and they have just started to be used in schools and universities. The purpose of this paper is to study how voice assistants and smart speakers are used in everyday life and whether there is potential in order for them to be used for educational purposes.

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日常生活和教育中的语音助手和智能扬声器

近年来，人工智能（AI）取得了长足发展，其潜力正在增长。AI的应用领域是自然语言处理（NLP）。语音助手通过使用云计算集成了AI，并且可以以自然语言与用户通信。语音助手易于使用，因此，如今有数百万种设备可以将它们集成到家庭中。带有语音助手的最常见设备是智能扬声器，它们刚刚开始在学校和大学中使用。本文的目的是研究语音助手和智能扬声器在日常生活中的使用方式，以及是否有潜力将其用于教育目的。