  In this paper, we present a demo of an intelligent personal agent called Hey
Dona (or just Dona) with virtual voice assistance in student course
registration. It is a deployed project in the theme of AI for education. In
this digital age with a myriad of smart devices, users often delegate tasks to
agents. While pointing and clicking supersedes the erstwhile command-typing,
modern devices allow users to speak commands for agents to execute tasks,
enhancing speed and convenience. In line with this progress, Dona is an
intelligent agent catering to student needs by automated, voice-operated course
registration, spanning a multitude of accents, entailing task planning
optimization, with some language translation as needed. Dona accepts voice
input by microphone (Bluetooth, wired microphone), converts human voice to
computer understandable language, performs query processing as per user
commands, connects with the Web to search for answers, models task
dependencies, imbibes quality control, and conveys output by speaking to users
as well as displaying text, thus enabling human-AI interaction by speech cum
text. It is meant to work seamlessly on desktops, smartphones etc. and in
indoor as well as outdoor settings. To the best of our knowledge, Dona is among
the first of its kind as an intelligent personal agent for voice assistance in
student course registration. Due to its ubiquitous access for educational
needs, Dona directly impacts AI for education. It makes a broader impact on
smart city characteristics of smart living and smart people due to its
contributions to providing benefits for new ways of living and assisting 21st
century education, respectively.
