AI Magazine October 2025 | Page 209

AI APPLICATIONS
Shoebox inventor William C. Dersch became the first system handling continuous speech without pauses between words.
Today’ s virtual assistants, meanwhile, work through natural language processing( NLP) – a technology that helps computers understand human speech patterns – combined with machine learning( ML) that adapts to individual users.
The process captures voice, converts it to text, then figures out what the user wants to accomplish. A major leap forward happened in
The Virtual Assistance Institute reports that entrepreneurs reclaim

13-15

hours per week by delegating tasks to virtual assistants