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Assistant will be instantly compared to Apple's Siri, but the plan is to 'go beyond' Apple's iPhone 4S offering, by helping you make decisions, rather than simply serving-up information. TechCrunch sources say the voice-powered "do engine" is being developed by the Android team and will be powered by Google's own search engine, Google +1 and the Google+ social network.

Use of CX, combined with sound monitoring -- perhaps there's solutions to using the "always-on" voice assistants to monitor coughs, frequency of coughs, the sound of the cough, sneezes, etc to make a soft diagnosis based on your symptoms.

This ties in to Emily's post on virtual assistants. iPhone integrating Siri deeply into the OS as an "assistant" service bundled in the OS.

combining voice recognition and natural language processing with search to create a really smart way to easily find the things you want quickly. If you've already forgotten: It's kind of like Siri, except it works.

Georgie is built specifically to help blind users navigate day-to-day obstacles such as taking bus rides, reading printed texts, and knowing their exact whereabouts in unfamiliar areas. The app lets users dial numbers using a voice assisted touchscreen. Users can also utilize the speech input to send text messages and tag previous routes or hazards through navigation apps.

"While still young in robot years (and actual years; she turns 2 years old on Feb. 14), Sophia's natural language processing capabilities, a key function of AI across many voice AI platforms like Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa and Google's Assistant, in some ways seem impressive. That's because she doesn't simply answer what she's asked. However, she also sometimes doesn't answer at all. Hanson Robotics requested some prep questions to train her in some topics ahead of time (something I'd never give a human before an interview), and Sophia could answer very few of them. Here's a transcript of our conversation. And the ones she did answer were nothing more than one-liners."