Cisco Brings AI-Based Voice Assistant For The Enterprise

Cisco has introduced a new voice assistant based on artificial intelligence called Spark Assistant that will act as a virtual assistant within an organization.

The company mentioned that Spark Assistant is not a consumer-grade voice assistant such as Siri, Cortana, Alexa, and Google Assistant, but a business-class tool that can act as a meeting moderator and be a virtual member of the team. Spark Assistant uses conversational AI and the goal is for people to become more comfortable talking to devices.

Cisco Spark Assistant will be on the Spark platform and will be called Spark. Cisco was named Monica, but according to one source, Monica was a name used in the experiments for the voice help tool. In the future, the voice assistant will be called Spark.

The Spark wizard will be the first on the Cisco Spark Room portfolio, with the new Cisco Spark Room 70. The system is powered by Nvidia Jetson technology which has been optimized for in-depth machine learning. In the coming years The robots will join our work teams. When they do, people will be able to get rid of the chore of meeting setup and logistics to become more creative than ever, "said Rowan Trollope, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Applications Group, Cisco.

Cisco will launch Spark Assistant in phases, starting early next year. In the first phase, a small group of customers will use some features.

Here's what you'll be able to do in the first phase:

· Start your meeting without typing or dialing:

o "Hi, spark, join the meeting."

o "Hi, spark, I want to start the meeting."

o "Hi, spark. Let's start."

· Effortlessly join your own Cisco WebEx personal meeting room or one of your work rooms:

o "Hi, spark, call my meeting room."

o "Hi, spark, call Victor's PMR."

o "Hi, sparkle, call Michael's meeting room."

· Quickly call anyone in your organization without lifting a finger:

o "Hi, spark, call Sydney."

· Control your Cisco Spark endpoint without leaving your chair:

o "Hi, spark, finish the meeting."

"The future of big meetings is Spark with AI and our partners have an incredible opportunity to help customers take advantage of this revolutionary technology," he added.