Adheetee: A Comprehensive Bangla Virtual Assistant

Abstract

A Virtual Assistant is an application program that can understand natural language (audio and text) commands and perform tasks for the user. The importance and usage of the virtual assistant are growing exponentially worldwide. In this paper, we have demonstrated a comprehensive design and development methodology of a Bangla virtual AI assistant `Adheetee (Erudite)' for smart devices such as smartphones and personal computers. Bangla is the native language of Bangladesh and some states of India with millions of native speakers worldwide. There are some popular virtual assistants available in English and other languages but not in Bangla. Therefore, using a virtual assistant become very difficult for Bangla speaking people around the world. Moreover, a large portion of Bengali speaking people is illiterate. This makes using a virtual assistant more difficult. This gives us the motivation to build a comprehensive virtual assistant for Bangla language. We have covered vast varieties of most frequent commands in our system with the accuracy of 94.065%.