Cisco Announces World's First AI-Powered Voice Assistant for Meetings

Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) has announced the release of Cisco Spark Assistant, the world’s first enterprise-ready voice assistant for meetings.
As quoted in the press release:

It will be available first on the Cisco Spark Room Series portfolio, including the new flagship Cisco Spark Room 70, which we also announce today.
Cisco Spark Assistant is the latest innovation on the Cisco Spark platform. Unlike all-purpose voice assistants, Cisco Spark Assistant has one goal: to help you have great meetings that run more smoothly.
“During the next few years, AI meeting bots will be joining our work teams. When they do, people will be able to ditch the drudgery of meeting setup and other logistics to become more creative than ever,” said Rowan Trollope, SVP and GM, Applications Group, Cisco. “The future of great meetings is Spark with AI and our partners have an incredible opportunity to help customers take advantage of this game-changing technology.”
We will release Cisco Spark Assistant in phases, starting early next year. In the first phase, a small group of customers will use select features.
Here is what you will be able to do in phase one:

• Start your meeting without any typing or dialing:
  • “Hey, Spark. Join the meeting.”
  • “Hey, Spark. I want to start the meeting.”
  • “Hey, Spark. Let’s get started.”
• Effortlessly join your own Cisco® WebEx® personal meeting room or one of your co-workers’ rooms:
  • “Hey, Spark. Call my meeting room.”
  • “Hey, Spark. Call Victor’s PMR.”
  • “Hey, Spark. Call Michael’s meeting room.”

Click here to read the full press release.