As emerging technologies are taking the world by storm, everything around us is becoming smarter. One can now book an appointment at the hair salon just by commanding one’s smartphone to do so. This is made possible by natural language processing (NLP), Speech Recognition, natural language understanding (NLU) and other technologies. In this article, we have curated a list of applications which have been developed using these techniques and have been used heavily used in 2019.
In this article, we list down 10 top NLP-based apps for iOS and Android used in 2019.
(The applications are listed according to their rating)
1| Lyra
Lyra is a popular cloud-based voice assistant which can almost communicate as a human does. The functionality of this assistant includes telling jokes, translate words and phrases instantly, open maps and give directions, save notes and reminders, find the weather forecast and do other similar tasks.
Rating: 4.4
Downloads: 1,000,000+
Cost: Free
Click here to install it.
2| Alexa
Developed by Amazon, Alexa is one of the popular virtual assistants used in 2019. The app is capable of voice interaction, music playback, making to-do lists, setting alarms, streaming podcasts, playing audiobooks, and providing weather, traffic, and showcase other real-time information.
Rating: 4.3
Downloads: 10,000,000+
Cost: Free
Click here to install it.
3| Cortana
Cortana is a personal digital assistant developed by Microsoft. It includes various types of features such as location-based reminders, time-based reminders, photo reminders, recognise natural voices without the requirement for keyboard input, answer queries, among others.
Rating: 4.3
Downloads: 1,000,000+
Cost: Free
Click here to install it.
4| Elsa Speak
ELSA or English Language Speech Assistant uses speech recognition technology which helps a user to speak English fluently. One can learn to speak over 2000 of the most popular English words with perfect pronunciation, receive feedback on how to move your tongue and lips to correct your words, practice common phrases used in everyday life, and other such.
Rating: 4.3
Downloads: 1,000,000+
Cost: ₹10.00 – ₹3,599 per item
Click here to install it.
5| Extreme
Extreme is a personal AI voice assistant which is fully capable of understanding conversations in English. It helps in finding places on Google Maps, taking selfies, posting on social media, download and play media, and much more.
Rating: 4.3
Downloads: 500,000+
Cost: Free
Click here to install it.
6| Robin
Robin is one of the popular voice assistants on the go. It includes several hands-free features such as personalised playlist including traffic, weather, and local news reports, sends a text by voice, set reminders and alarms, getting directions, locating parking lots and gas stations, etc.
Rating: 4.2
Downloads: 1,000,000+
Cost: Free
Click here to install it.
7| DataBot
DataBot is one of the popular virtual assistants for Android. This smart digital assistant can perform tasks like creating customised multimedia presentations using voice, text, and images, answers to specific questions using Google, Wikipedia, feed RSS, and web material, creates summarising pages containing a user’s answer, related details, materials, search services, and other such.
Rating: 4.1
Downloads: 1,000,000+
Cost: Free
Click here to install it.
8| Jarvis
Jarvis is an AI personal assistant which includes special voice recognition and hot-word detection functions and can be trained using the daily used commands and response. It includes features such as quick alert, hot-word detection, custom commands, charge full alert and other such.
Rating: 4.1
Downloads: 100,000+
Cost: Free
Click here to install it.
9| Hound
Hound is a smart voice search and assistant app which is said to be faster than Siri. The Houndify platform combines Speech Recognition and Natural Language Understanding into a single step known as Speech-to-Meaning which makes the platform faster and more accurate.
Rating: 3.9
Downloads: 1,000,000+
Cost: Free
Click here to install it.
10| Google Allo
Google Allo is an instant messaging mobile app by Google which includes a virtual assistant that generated automatic reply suggestions and an optional encrypted mode known as incognito mode. Currently, the tech giant has paused the development of Allo since March 2019 but it is one of the popular instant messaging apps for Android and iOS.
Rating: 3.5
Downloads: 211,283
Cost: Free
Click here to install it.
