A prototype of smart virtual assistant integrated with automation

Some of the popular virtual assistants today are Google Assistant, Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa, Microsoft's Cortana. Such virtual assistants are capable of understanding natural language voice commands and perform various tasks for users. Virtual assistants have typically and historically performed simple jobs for end-users such as adding tasks to a calendar, providing information scraped from websites. Users also use virtual assistants to make and receive phone calls, create text messages, get directions, hear news and weather reports, find hotels or restaurants, check flight reservations, hear music, or play games. With the latest technology integrated with virtual assistants its ability to understand and perform requests can be enhanced. Currently, Web Automation is widely used in the industry for software testing, Web scraping, etc. However, its application can be widely increased if it can be integrated with Voice assistants, making them even smarter. In this paper, we propose to present a prototype of a system that combines web automation and a smart virtual assistant that can relieve the user from day-to-day mundane tasks. This paper has 2 main novelties 1) presenting the design and prototype of such fusion assistant 2) determining and analyzing user acceptability.