Lyra, until 2017 marketed under the name Indigo, is an

intelligent personal assistant An intelligent virtual assistant (IVA) or intelligent personal assistant (IPA) is a software agent that can perform tasks or services for an individual based on commands or questions. The term "chatbot" is sometimes used to refer to virtual ...

developed by

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and which runs on

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and

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. The application uses

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to answer a user's questions on a variety of topics, make recommendations and operate the user's device. Demonstrated at Mobile World Congress in February 2013, the software, then called Indigo, was first publicly launched by Artificial Solutions for Android

mobile device A mobile device (or handheld computer) is a computer small enough to hold and operate in the hand. Mobile devices typically have a flat LCD or OLED screen, a touchscreen interface, and digital or physical buttons. They may also have a physical ...

s in April 2013, with a Windows phone app appearing later in 2013 and an iOS app in 2014. One of the notable features of Lyra is its cross-platform functionality, and ability to retain a conversation across multiple devices. It translates to around 70 languages. The Software was originally designed to compete with Apple's

Siri Siri ( ) is a virtual assistant that is part of Apple Inc.'s iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, macOS, tvOS, and audioOS operating systems. It uses voice queries, gesture based control, focus-tracking and a natural-language user interface to answer ques ...

Virtual Assistant and to bring the functionality to Android devices, which are incompatible with Siri.

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