Braina 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 ...

and speech to text dictation application for Microsoft Windows marketed by Brainasoft. Braina uses

natural language interface Natural-language user interface (LUI or NLUI) is a type of computer human interface where linguistic phenomena such as verbs, phrases and clauses act as UI controls for creating, selecting and modifying data in software applications. In interface d ...

and

speech recognition Speech recognition is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and computational linguistics that develops methodologies and technologies that enable the recognition and translation of spoken language into text by computers with the ma ...

to interact with its users and allows users to use natural language sentences to perform various tasks on their computer. The application can find information from the internet, search and play songs and videos of user's choice, take dictation, find and open files, set alarms and reminders, performs math calculations, controls windows and programs etc. Braina's Android and iOS apps can be used to interact with the system remotely over a

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network. The name Braina is a short form of Brain Artificial. The software adapts to the user's behavior over time to better anticipate needs. The software also allows users to type commands using keyboard instead of saying them. Braina comes in both free and paid version. The latest update 1.7 comes with a complete rework of both the business model and function of Braina. Fee structure: Brainasoft has moved to an upfront fee and pay as you go billing model. You can buy blocks of query's at $15.00, $50.00 or $100.00 once you have paid for the access to the software. This fee applies to all query's including a simple one like "what time is it?" Function: Braina is no longer an A.i. on your computer. It like Alexa, Google and Apples Ciri is housed on a server under the control of Brainasoft. The current distinguishing factor of Braina over other A.I. is that there is a software download and interface on your computer that is more extensive than other A.I. options.

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recognized Braina as one of the top 10 free essential software for 2015. Braina comes in two versions: freeware Lite and Pro.

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