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A voice assistant is a digital assistant. A voice assistant make use of voice recognition, natural language processing and speech synthesis. The users can use smart phones or other voice recognizing applications to access the facilities provided by voice assistant. The users can interact with their devices using voice commands in an intuitive manner. The users can give voice commands and the acknowledgement for that command is recognized by the voice assistant interface and the desired output is given. Visually impaired people can make use of this application which will help them to travel from one place to another without anyone. Visually handicapped people can use this application to make their communication easy. Context awareness used in many mobile applications is helpful for those people, but there exist some other dependencies for visually impaired people to communicate with this application. So voice assistant or virtual assistant take it as a challenge to help those people and provide easy communication. The best voice assistants are Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Apple Siri, Microsoft Cortana, Samsung Bixby etc. Amazon Alexa is used to monitor the movement and breathing of infants. In this paper we discuss about various applications of voice assistant.