To start a conversation, launch the application and say: "Hello, Alice" (or press the button with the microphone).

When you press 👎, Alice prompts you to report the problem to the developers. If you pressed 👎 by mistake or change your mind to complain, select Oh no, everything is ok.

Alice doesn't understand me

If Alice does not recognize your words correctly (the text appears on the screen, which you pronounced), try to move the microphone closer and say the phrase more clearly. If Alice still shows the wrong text, press 👎 and select the option My speech was not recognized... In mobile applications, text can be typed manually - to do this, press the keyboard icon on Alice's screen.

If your speech is recognized correctly, but Alice answers out of place or clearly does not understand the question, press 👎 and select the option The answer does not match the question.

Alice mispronounces the words

To tell the developers about the pronunciation error, press 👎 under Alice's answer and select the option Incorrectly voiced text.

Alice is rude

Alice tries to answer each question individually - there is no strict correspondence between question and answer. An inappropriate answer can offend or seem like a bad joke. Please let us know: click 👎 under Alice's answer and select the option you want (for example, The answer is offensive or offensive).

It becomes easier to get answers to many questions when the voice assistant Alice from Yandex is at hand. Alice is a personal assistant with artificial intelligence, developed by Yandex, an alternative to competitor Okay Google. Alice easily helps to cope with everyday tasks and has a meaningful dialogue.

The program is based on neural networks that recognize speech, accents in the voice, create responses and produce a synthesis of the assistant's voice. Thanks to such skills, Alice is able to improvise and communicate in a spoken language accessible to everyone. With each subsequent update voice assistant Alice has new opportunities and now, in addition to performing search queries.

If you are bored or sad, she will joke, tell a joke or play with you. Would you like to watch a movie? Easy - movie posters, tickets and prices in an instant. For children, Alice can include a fairy tale. Her answers will always be varied, the creators of the application have worked for a long time and were able to put modern live speech into the voice assistant, which will be understandable to many.

Alice is voiced by Russian actress Tatyana Shitova thanks to her voice acting Alice turned out to be very lively. Sadness, joy and even audacity can be traced in her intonations.

This is not the whole list of her capabilities, she is constantly learning new skills and improving herself.

You can find out about all the skills of the Assistant by saying: Alice, what can you do, the application will display a list of her capabilities.

How to start voice assistant Alice

You can talk to Alice by clicking on the purple icon or say one of the phrases:

• Hello Alice
• Hello Alice
• Alice let's chat / talk
• Listen Alice

After waiting for the activation sound, you can ask a question or command.

Most often, users ask Alice

• Let's play
• Sing a song
• Make a riddle
• The weather for tomorrow
• Turn on YouTube
• tell me a story
• Play cartoons
• tell a joke
• Find a song

If you just want to chat, you can say: Hi Alice, let's chat or ask her what's new or find out how she's doing. She will support the dialogue, joke or tell an anecdote. With simple communication, she will not always be able to perform the search mode. Therefore, you can exit and start the search function again or give the command with the word Enough.

You can also try Mail.ru with its own functionality and capabilities.

Screenshots of Yandex with Alice

• Yandex was able to create convenient application for Android smartphones with which you can have fun and get fast access to information, thanks to voice communication.

  How to install Alice

  1. Download the Alice application from the link below.
  2. Install the application.
  2. Allow the application to determine the geolocation.
  3. For full-fledged work, allow to record sound.
  4. For ease of use, you can put a widget or shortcut on the home screen.

Add to calendar 07/30/2019 18:30 07/30/2019 21:00 Europe / Moscow Alice, let's chat about testing St. Petersburg, Piskarevsky prospect, 2k2Shch, Yandex office, 5th floor

Alice, let's chat about testing

Program

• Participants

On July 30, the St. Petersburg office of Yandex will host an event "Alice, let's chat about testing."
It's 2019, we are surrounded by voice assistants - including Alice from Yandex. Alice is available in various services and smart devices - not only in speakers. The meeting will allow you to learn about the entire ecosystem around the voice assistant, about smart home and solutions from other companies. Central theme: testing of such systems, its features and main challenges. In between reports, you can chat with speakers and other developers from Alice's team.

Registration is required. We will offer all those invited to complete the task of testing the assistant - the winners will receive smart speakers from us.

The virtual voice assistant Alice was created by Yandex to help Windows users, Android and iOS navigate the Internet space. The personal assistant quickly finds necessary information and performs a huge number of useful tasks. According to the developers, the uniqueness of "Alice" is in the unlimited set of given answers. This application is a completely new format with improved functionality, for which there are almost no inaccessible tasks.

Voice assistant goes beyond the existing (prescribed) scenarios and has a lot of advantages in comparison with their counterparts. All this became possible thanks to the involved innovative technologies neural networks.

"Alice" is a virtual character. She does not have an official image, but she has her own pleasant voice, more precisely, the voice of the Russian actress Tatyana Shitova, which was used in the voice engine.

It was originally planned to make a noble girl out of Alice, but having decided that it would be boring for the user, the developers came up with a new image of a witty teenager.

The creators managed to "revive" the virtual assistant as much as possible. Alice can sing, improvise, show emotion and dialogue on a variety of topics. She loves being joked with and can be a great conversationalist.

Depending on the context and situation, she is capable of being insolent, rude, demonstrating her character and does an excellent job with her main task - to help people.

Alice's capabilities

The new service is ideally adapted to the subtleties of the Russian mentality and language, perfectly interacts with other Yandex services and has its own search engine. "Understanding" and speaking in human language, Alice easily recognizes any speech and helps in a variety of situations.

Yandex Assistant can:

• Run applications;

• To turn on the music;

• Open any Internet resource;

• Find and determine the location of the objects necessary for the user and build a convenient route;

• Find and deliver the latest news;

• Talk about the weather, traffic situation, operating hours of the establishments of interest.

Even if the system does not know the exact answer, it can easily find the necessary Internet data. The user can always make clarifications and request detailed information. If there is a desire to just talk with "Alice", a serious conversation is unlikely to take place.

You can ask the assistant about her affairs, mood and personal life, but with curiosity, the main thing is not to overdo it. Any advantage in her virtual opportunities will cause "Alice" to simply redirect you to a web search engine.

"Hello Alice" - how to use the application

Before establishing contact with the voice assistant, you must install the application on Personal Computer... In system Windows service works in beta. For " prospecting works"You need to connect to the Internet, but if you just need to talk to" Alice ", you can do it without connecting.

The assistant is located in the Windows taskbar, next to the Start menu, and the personal assistant is activated with the phrases:

"Hello Alice",

"Listen, Alice"

"Okay Alice."

Or, if you wish, you can use the Yandex commands:

"Hello Yandex",

"Listen, Yandex",

"Okay, Yandex."

The response is instant.

The virtual assistant works great in a question-and-answer mode and is able to recognize both text and voice requests. When giving answers, Alisa either speaks them out loud or displays them on the screen.

The assistant works in test mode. For now, this is a beta version, but with excellent prospects. The developers declare the huge potential of the new assistant, and are actively working to improve the functionality and expand the capabilities.

The owners also have the opportunity to use the assistant. mobile applications Yandex based operating systems Android and iOS.

Alice is a free voice assistant for simplifying everyday tasks from your phone: finding an organization, getting directions, searching for information on the Internet and much more. The app is a direct competitor Google services OK and Siri.

Alice will answer any questions from the user (for those that she does not know the answer to - she studies and searches on the Internet), and also helps to get to the house by building a route for drivers, cyclists, pedestrians or paving a path on public transport.

Alice was developed by Yandex and is accordingly synchronized with all the company's services: maps, navigation, weather, movie poster, browser, etc.

The assistant is convenient when it is not possible to enter data into the phone, for example, at -40 to print on the smartphone which bus is going to a certain stop - just call it with the command "Listen, Alice!" and ask for the bus number. In the case of searching for a store or cinema, the procedure is the same: the voice assistant will find everything that is on the card.

• determine the caller's phone number: which region and city, mobile operator, organization of 5 million and other parameters;
• prompt weather forecast accurate to the region, report the latest news, notify of important messages;
• lay out routes: for cars, cyclists, pedestrians and call a taxi;
• find any places nearby: pharmacies, shops, cinemas, theaters, parks, etc.;
• just chat about life and even play.

It's easy to download, install and use the Alice application on Android - first of all, you need to download APK file or through the Google store using the links below. Then install as a regular program and run. That's all! Now the assistant is in your Android phone.

Take out your phone, hold it to your mouth and say: "Listen, Alice!" or “Hello, Alice!”, to which the assistant will respond and help you find information or promptly prompt you with an answer.

You can download the program both separately and in combination with any service. For example, the assistant can be activated in, Navigator or installed as separate application Yandex.

To activate the assistant in the browser, just click on Menu - Settings - Voice capabilities - enable.

For all other cases, below are links where you can download Alice's voice assistant in Russian for free for Android devices (smartphones and tablets).