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

The program is based on neural networks, which recognize speech, accents in the voice, create responses and synthesize 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 of the voice assistant, Alice gains new capabilities, now in addition to performing search queries.

If you are bored or sad, she will joke, tell an anecdote or play with you. Would you like to watch a movie? Easy - movie posters, tickets and prices in a jiffy. Alice can play a fairy tale for children. Her answers will always be varied; the creators of the application 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 alive. Her intonations reveal sadness, joy and even insolence.

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

You can learn about all the Assistant's skills by saying: Alice, what can you do, the application will display a list of its capabilities.

How to launch voice assistant Alice

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

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

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

Most often, users ask for Alice

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

If you just want to chat, you can say: Hi Alice, let's chat or ask what's new with her 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

• The Yandex company was able to create a 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 geolocation.
  3. For full operation, allow to record sound.
  4. For ease of use, you can add a widget or shortcut to 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 the 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 topic: testing of such systems, its features and main challenges. In between reports, you will be able to chat with speakers and other developers from the Alice team.

Registration is required. We will offer all invitees 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 its unlimited set of preset answers. This is an application of a completely new format with improved functionality, for which there are almost no tasks that are inaccessible.

The voice assistant goes beyond existing (prescribed) scenarios and has many advantages over its counterparts. All this became possible thanks to the innovative neural network technologies involved.

"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.

Initially, it was planned to make “Alice” a noble maiden, but deciding that this would be boring for the user, the developers came up with new image witty teenager.

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

Depending on the context and situation, she is able to be insolent, rude, demonstrate her character and copes well with her main task- To help people.

Alice's capabilities

The new service is ideally adapted to the intricacies of the Russian mentality and language, interacts perfectly with other Yandex services and has its own search. Alice, who “understands” and speaks human language, easily recognizes any speech and helps in a variety of situations.

Yandex Assistant can:

• Launch applications;

• To turn on the music;

• Open any Internet resource;

• Find and locate needed by the user objects and build a convenient route;

• Find and display the latest news;

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

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

You can ask your assistant about her affairs, mood and personal life, but the main thing is not to overdo it with curiosity. Any advantage in its virtual capabilities will lead to the fact that “Alice” will 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 Windows system the service is in beta version. For " search work“You need to connect to the Internet, but if you just need to talk to “Alice,” you can do this without a connection.

The assistant is located in the panel Windows tasks, next to the Start menu, and activate the personal assistant with the phrases:

"Hello Alice",

"Listen, Alice"

"Okay, Alice."

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

"Hello, Yandex"

"Listen, Yandex"

"Okay, Yandex."

The response comes instantly.

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

The assistant is working in test mode. This is still a beta version, but with excellent prospects. The developers declare the enormous potential of the new assistant, and are actively working to improve functionality and expand capabilities.

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

Alice Yandex– voice assistant for quick search information on the Internet. With its help, you can find out the weather, ask to call a taxi, create a route from one point to another, etc. Searching for answers is done using Yandex Browser. Alice says nice in a female voice, responds not only with already existing, prepared phrases, but also learns new things in order to maintain a conversation like an almost real, live interlocutor. To activate voice search, click on the button that is located at the bottom of the interface or say “Hello, Alice” or “Listen, Alice.”

If you asked an easy question that does not require a detailed search on the Internet, the Alice voice assistant will independently speak the answer or display it in the application interface. In addition to searching the Internet for answers, voice assistant Alice can launch a program or turn on music on the computer, can find the desired folder, and can also shut down the computer. If you get bored, then just say “Alice, let’s chat” and she will continue the conversation. Alice loves when people joke with her and can tell jokes herself. So far, Yandex Alice for Windows 7, 8, 10 doesn’t know many jokes, but they are quite witty. To get a program out of background mode, just say “Listen, Alice” and the program is ready to answer your questions. There is Alice from Yandex on the computer and also Yandex Alice on Android You can download them for free below.

Key features of Alice Yandex for Windows 7, 8, 10:

• Voice responses to user questions;
• Searching for answers to questions on the Internet;
• Communicate with the program without an Internet connection;
• Navigation in the application using voice;
• The ability to play music on your computer, find the desired folder and much more.

To listen to music, say “Alice, turn on the music” and the program will select one of the songs from the site radio.yandex.ru, which will open in the Yandex Browser. To finish working with the application, say goodbye to Alice with one of the phrases “Bye” or “Goodbye”. To search for answers to questions, the program needs a stable Internet connection, but if you just want to chat, then Alice can carry on a conversation without connecting to it. Latest version You can download Alice Yandex for free in Russian via a direct link from the official website on our website.