Hell, the 3rd season of James Burke's Connections in 1983 showed him talking to a voice-activated and voice-responding virtual digital assistant over a satellit

Hell, the 3rd season of James Burke's Connections in 1983 showed him talking to a voice-activated and voice-responding virtual digital assistant over a satellite modem scheduling videoconferences, buying airplane tickets, and making electronic financial transactions. Everything about that was already possible in 1983 except for the voice recognition; it just wasn't yet cheap enough to be in mass use.