Get answers to many questions is becoming easier when voice assistant Alice from Yandex. Alice is a personal assistant with artificial intelligence, developed by Yandex, an alternative to the competitor to Google. Alice easily helps to cope with everyday tasks and intelligently leads a dialogue.

The program is created on the basis neural networksthat recognize speech, accents in the voice, create answers and produce the synthesis of the voice of the assistant. Thanks to such skills, Alice is capable of improving and communicate on accessible to each spoken language. With each subsequent updating of the voice assistant, the Alice appear new features and now besides performing search queries.

If you are bored or sad, she will joke, tells the anecdote or play with you. Want to watch a movie? Easy - movie posters, tickets and prices in one moment. Children Alice can include a fairy tale. Her answers will always be diverse, the creators of the application worked for a long time and could invest modern living speech in the voice assistant, which will be understood by many.

The Russian actress Tatyana Shitova is voicing to Alice thanks to her voicing Alice turned out to be very alive. In her intonations, sadness, joy and even audacity are traced.

This is not the entire list of its capabilities, she is constantly learning new skills and improves itself.

You can learn about all the skills of the assistant, I can say: Alice you can, the application will lead a list of its capabilities.

How to run voice assistant Alice

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

• Hello Alice
• Hello Alice
• Alice Let's chat / Talk
• Listen to Alice

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

Most often, users ask Alice

• Let's play
• Sing a song
• Clean the riddle
• Weather for tomorrow
• Turn on Youtube
• tell me a story
• Turn on cartoons
• tell a joke
• Find a song

If you want to just talk, you can say: Hi Alice let's chat or ask what she has a new or learn how she is doing. It will support a dialogue, will joke or tell an anecdote. With simple communication, it will not always be able to execute the search mode. Therefore, you can exit and start the search function to re-or give a team to the word enough.

You can also try on Mail.Ru with your functionality and opportunities.

Screenshots of Yandex with Alice

• The company Yandex could create convenient application for Android smartphoneswith which you can spend fun and get fast access To information, thanks to voice communication.

  How to install Alisa

  1. Download Alice Appendix below.
  2. Install the application.
  2. Allow the application to determine the geoposition.
  3. For full work, allow you to record the sound.
  4. For ease of use, you can set a widget or label to the main screen.

From Yandex gave the name "Alice" - the developers argue that in honor of Alice of the Spiece, the heroine of Soviet films. Now Alice is already available to all owners of the Yandex browser, as well as it is installed in various "smart" devices.

In 2017, very eloquent statistics were collected (collected by the SEO-Auditor), arguing that over 90% of domestic users were looking for information in one of the 2nd search engines - Google or Yandex. Mail.ru and Rambler systems remained miserable crumbling of users, and many Russian users were suspected about the existence of Bing and Yahoo.

At the same time, on the rating of SEO-Auditor, it can be understood that Yandex, a significantly advanced Google in mid-2016, in 2017 was close to the fact that the "palm of championship". Why did Yandex become weaker? The answer is simple: because more and more people climbed the Internet with mobile devices, and less - with PC. Does many gadgets browser work by default with Yandex? No - any Android smartphone immediately enters Google.

In order to prevent monopoly on the Russian market of search engines and do not lose Google, the competition is thoughtful, Yandex tried to offer to users something that did not give them the "overseas giant". This "something" and was supposed to be an intelligent voice assistant, understanding Russian. Google Assistant was good, but he has obvious problems with Russian; Google Now is very primitive compared to, say, C and Alexa from Amazon. Alice was needed by Yandex to support popularity.

The Russian company managed to release his voice assistant to the mass market earlier than Google Assistant spoke in Russian - and this is a significant victory.

In 2019, the company expanded success - all its own services, and there are many (radio, navigator, money and other) are tightly connected with Alice, and therefore their own gadgets appeared, which also interact with the assistant. With it, you can run any of these services, perform a number of actions and manage branded and third-party devices. At this capabilities of the assistant do not end.

When was the voice assistant "Alice"?

Yandex officially introduced "Alice" on October 10, 2017. Resort to its services can owners of all devices with iOS and Android, as well as users of equipment on Windows and other OS.

"Alice" is well recognized by speech - moreover, she understands the user with a half-mounted. According to Yandex, the assistant is trained on a huge array of texts, and therefore is a real erudite - it is able to recognize even unfinished issues, given the context of what has been said earlier. Unlike the beta version, the official "Alice" does not have problems with intonation - she says to Tatyana Szitov's voice, actress voicing Scarlett Johansson.

In Yandex, they like to attract stars in the voice acting - the navigator of this company, for example, is able to speak by the voice of Raper Basta. And in 2019, especially for Yandex, the well-known musician Noize MC recorded an audioscope, it is possible to listen to its relevant request.

What can Assistant "Alice" from Yandex?

• Putting the routes, finds addresses, the position of the user, reports traffic jams.
• Produces a traditional search in the Yandex system and can quickly respond to popular questions, for example, "Who is John Snow?".
• Gives weather forecasts and tell me what to dress before going out.
• Reports addresses of institutions - cafes, business centers, hostels.
• Perform mathematical actions, converts currency.
• Launches applications and opens the Internet pages, such as Instagram, VKontakte or Site Service website.
• Supports a dialogue, and sometimes even demonstrates erudition, quoting songs, dialogues from films or referring to books.
• It will help manage time - the alarm clock will turn on, the timer will create a reminder in the calendar.
• It can play in the game - "Find too much", "Bowl of Fate", "What was before." The list of this is not exhausted, and you can find out what else is available on request "Alice, let's play."
• It will help to pass the time - it will sing a song, repeat the phrase for the user, translates and utters it in a foreign language, will turn on the fairy tale, will determine the song, will turn on the music.
• Enable devices connected to a smart home and allow them to manage.
• It will help to make the first and re-order on the service.
• Call for a specific number.

To promote Alice, Yandex uses numerous resources. So the voice assistant is tightly integrated into branded applications Companies - taxi, radio, navigator and others.

Not without the support of the "smart" systems. About "" heard many - it's with voice control. However, in addition to its own devices, Yandex has agreements and other brands. Alice supports smart speakers Elari SmartBeat, Irbis A, XBoom Ai Thinq WK7y, knows how to work with the SMARTIBOX TV console, children's clock Elari Kidphone 3G and Bluetooth earnings Ear Duo. This list of partners does not end. It includes REDMOND, and the mass of other famous brands (more than 100 them).

The developers have tried great to "alistent" "Alice" - so the voice assistant from Yandex is able to suit no worse than Siri, some of the pearls of which became popular memes. Here's how "Alice" explains why it is so calling:

Answers "Alice" is valid to the extremes fun, and the voice of the assistant sounds quite naturally (much better than in beta versions) - thanks to the technologies of machine learning gluing almost invisible. Those who annoy small "speech defects" can turn off the voice and answers "Alice" read.

How to install "Alice" on the smartphone?

You can download "Alice" to the smartphone by downloading and installing official app "Yandex" from Google Play. or appstore. You should run the application and click on the blue key with the image of the microphone, located exactly in the middle of the screen.

The correspondence window will appear, where old requests and answers will be displayed, the data on them "Alice". After clicking on the button with the microphone icon, the user will be able to make a new voice query.

Conclusion

According to statistics, 3.5 billion were used in the world in 2016 various devices With voice helpers. According to experts, by 2021 the number of such devices may increase twice. Statistics believe that we are at the stage of becoming a powerful global brand - already soon a company that did not give the world of the intellectual assistant created by the personally, will be considered an outsider.

All major developers have already acquired voice assistantsthat work in varying degrees effectively: for example, Apple pleases its fans by the "Melnica" Siri, and Samsung, on the contrary, grieves users. Yandex also did not remain aside - her Assistant "Alice" from the point of functionality is becoming better, and it is really convenient to use it and interesting.

Add to Calendar 07/30/2019 18:30 30.07.2019 21:00 Europe / Moscow Alice, let's chat about testing St. Petersburg, Piskarevsky Prospekt, 2K2ch, Office Yandex, 5th floor

Alice, let's chat about testing

Program

• Participants

On July 30, an event "Alice, let's chat about testing" will be held in the Yandex St. Petersburg office.
In the courtyard of 2019, vocal helpers are surrounded - including Alice from Yandex. Alice is available in different services and smart devices - not only in the columns. 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 the interruptions between reports, you can talk with speakers and other developers from the Alice team.

Registration is required. We will offer to all invited to test the assistant testing - winners will receive intelligent columns from us.

Virtual Voice Assistant Alice was created by Yandex to help windows users, Android and iOS navigate in the Internet space. Personal assistant promptly finds necessary information And performs a huge amount of useful tasks. According to the developers, the uniqueness of "Alice" - in an unlimited set of specified responses. This application is a completely new format with improved functional, for which there are almost no inaccessible tasks.

The voice assistant goes beyond the existing (prescribed) scenarios and has a mass gain in comparison with its analogues. All this has become possible due to involved innovative technologies neural networks.

Alice is a virtual character. She has no official image, but there is a nice voice, more precisely, the voice of the Russian actress Tatyana Shitov, which was used in the voice engine.

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

The creators succeeded as "revive" a virtual assistant as much as possible. Alice can sing, improvise, show emotions and dialogue on a variety of topics. She loves when they joke with her and can become an excellent interlocutor.

Depending on the context and the situation, it is capable of keeping, rich, to demonstrate its character and perfectly copes with its main task - to help people.

Opportunities "Alice"

The new service is ideally adapted to the subtleties of Russian mentality and language, it works great with other Yandex services and has its own search. "Understanding" and the people talking to the human language easily recognizes any speech and helps in a variety of situations.

Yandex Assistant can:

• Run applications;

• Turn on the music;

• Open any Internet resource;

• Find and determine the location of the objects you need and build a convenient route;

• Find and issue the latest news;

• Talk about the weather, road situation, the modes of work of interest.

Even if the system does not know an accurate answer, it easily finds the necessary Internet data. The user can always make clarifications and request detailed information. If there is a desire to simply talk with Alice, a serious conversation will hardly take place.

The helper can ask 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 lead to the fact that "Alice" will simply redirect you to a web search engine.

"Hi, Alice" - how to use the app

Before building contact with voice assistant, you need to install the application on personal Computer. IN windows system The service works in beta. For " search work»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 activate a personal assistant phrases:

"Hello Alice",

"Listen, Alice",

"Okay, Alice."

Or, at your request, you can use Yandex commands:

"Hi, Yandex",

"Listen, Yandex",

"Okay, Yandex.

The response comes instantly.

The virtual assistant works perfectly in the "Question-Answer" mode and is able to recognize both text and voice requests. Giving answers, Alisa utters them out loud or displays it.

Assistant works in test mode. While it is a beta version, but with excellent prospects. Developers declare the enormous potential of the new helper, and are actively working to improve the functionality and the expansion of opportunities.

The ability to use the assistant and owners mobile applications Yandex on the base operating systems Android and iOS.