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=== Impact on other industries === As already mentioned, Voice Assistants are used in our daily lives. Here there are different categories, such as music, hands-free search, and other uses of Voice Assistants. This category is mostly used to ask for jokes.<ref>Tawfiq Ammari, Jofish Kaye, Janice Y. Tsai, and Frank Bentley. 2019. Music, Search, and IoT: How People (Really) Use Voice Assistants. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 26, 3, Article 17 (June 2019), 28 pages. [https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3311956 https://doi.org/10.1145/3311956]</ref> It is also used to help people with reading impairments and help people to understand difficult texts, like prescriptions. Also, for people who are blind and there is not a braille text available. There has been research about people with dementia who can benefit from a voice assistant that can answer the same questions over and over again without losing patience and encourage the patients when needed.Β <ref name=":1" /> During the Covid-19 pandemic, hospitals were struggling with maintaining inpatient and outpatient services for other healthcare needs. Voice Assistants have been used to deliver healthcare information, which reduced stress on the health system. <ref><nowiki>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-020-00332-0</nowiki></ref>
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