Personalized, automated receptionist

A computer program product for providing an automated receptionist for a host user, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a computing device to cause the computing device to perform the following steps:

• performing a learning process comprising:
• obtaining one or more images of a work environment of said host user;
• processing, using at least one hardware device, said one or more images to determine if one or more of at least one visitor and said host user are present in said work environment, wherein said processing comprises:
• learning, using at least one hardware device, a name of said at least one visitor, wherein said learning comprises processing one or more items of speech of one or more of said at least one visitor and said host user;
• associating, using at least one hardware device, one or more faces in said one or more images of said at least one visitor with one or more of said learned names of said at least one visitor;
• and
• if said visitor is determined to be present in said work environment, notifying said host user that said visitor is present in said work environment.