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 OK Google. Alice easily helps to cope with everyday tasks and meaningfully conducts a dialogue.
The program was created on the basis of neural networks that recognize speech, accents in the voice, create responses and synthesize the voice of the assistant. 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 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. Alice can turn on 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 lively. Sadness, joy and even impudence can be traced in her intonations.
This is not the whole list of her abilities, she is constantly learning new skills and improving herself.
You can learn about all the skills of the Assistant by saying: Alice what can you do, the application will display a list of her abilities.
How to start the voice assistant Alice
You can talk to Alice by clicking on the purple icon or say one of the following 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
- 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: Hello 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, it will not always be able to perform the search mode. Therefore, you can exit and start the search function again or give a command with the word Enough.
You can also try out Mail.ru with its functionality and capabilities.
Screenshots of Yandex with Alice
Yandex was able to create a convenient application for Android smartphones, with which you can have fun and get quick 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 recording sound.
4. For ease of use, you can put a widget or shortcut on the main screen.
The virtual voice assistant Alice was created by Yandex to help Windows, Android and iOS users navigate the Internet. The personal assistant quickly finds the necessary information and performs a huge number of useful tasks. According to the developers, the uniqueness of "Alice" is in an unlimited set of given answers. This is an application of a completely new format with improved functionality, for which there are almost no tasks inaccessible.
The voice assistant goes beyond the existing (prescribed) scenarios and has a lot of advantages in comparison with its counterparts. All this became possible thanks to the innovative technologies of neural networks 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 Russian actress Tatyana Shitova, which was used in the voice engine.
Initially, it was planned to make a noble girl out of 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 managed to "revive" the virtual assistant as much as possible. Alice can sing, improvise, show emotions and engage in 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 impudent, rude, demonstrate her character and does an excellent job with her main task - to help people.
Features of "Alice"
The new service is perfectly adapted to the intricacies of the Russian mentality and language, interacts perfectly with other Yandex services and has its own search. “Understanding” and speaking human language, Alice easily recognizes any speech and helps in a variety of situations.
Yandex Assistant can:
- Launch applications;
- Turn on the music;
- Open any Internet resource;
- Find and determine the location of the objects needed by the user and build a convenient route;
- Find and issue the latest news;
- Tell about the weather, the traffic situation, the opening hours of the 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 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 superiority 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 your personal computer. On Windows, the service is in beta. For "search work" you need to connect to the Internet, but if you just need to talk to "Alice", you can do this 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 Yandex commands:
"Hello, Yandex",
"Listen, Yandex",
"Okay, Yandex."
The response is immediate.
The virtual assistant works great in the "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 in test mode. While it 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.
Owners of Yandex mobile applications based on Android and iOS operating systems also have the opportunity to use the assistant.
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 application is a direct competitor to Google OK services and Siri.
Alice will answer any questions the user has (she studies and searches on the Internet for those that she does not know the answer to), and will also help you get home by building a route for drivers, cyclists, pedestrians or by public transport.
Alice was developed by Yandex and, accordingly, is synchronized with all company 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 goes to a certain stop - just call the command “Listen, Alice!” and ask for the bus number. In the case of searching for a store or cinema, the procedure is similar: the voice assistant will find everything that is on the map.
- determine the caller's phone number: which region and city, mobile operator, organization of 5 million, and other parameters;
- prompt the weather forecast with an accuracy of the area, report the latest news, notify you of important messages;
- build 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.
Downloading, installing and using the Alice app for Android is simple - first of all, you need to download the APK file or through the Google store using the links below. Then install as a normal program and run. That's all! Now the assistant is in your Android phone.
Take out the phone, bring it to your mouth and say: “Listen, Alice!” or “Hi, Alice!”, to which the assistant will respond and help you find information or quickly 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 a separate Yandex application.
To activate the assistant in the browser, just click on Menu - Settings - Voice capabilities - turn on.
For all other cases, below are links where you can download Alice voice assistant in Russian for free for Android devices (smartphones and tablets).
To start a conversation, launch the app and say "Hi Alice" (or press the microphone button).
When you press 👎, Alice offers to report the problem to the developers. If you clicked 👎 by mistake or change your mind about reporting, select Oh no, everything is ok.
Alice doesn't understand me
If Alice does not correctly recognize your words (the text that you said does not appear on the screen), try to bring the microphone closer and say the phrase more clearly. If Alice still shows incorrect text, press 👎 and select an option My speech was not recognized. In mobile applications, text can be typed manually - to do this, click the keyboard icon on Alice's screen.
If your speech is recognized correctly, but Alice answers inappropriately or clearly does not understand the question, press 👎 and select the option The answer does not match the question.
Alice mispronounces words
To tell the developers about a pronunciation mistake, click 👎 under Alice's answer and select the option Wrong text.
Alice is rude
Alice tries to answer each question individually - there is no strict correspondence between the question and the answer. An answer that is not appropriate in context may 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 insulting).
Add to calendar 30.07.2019 18:30 30.07.2019 21:00 Europe/Moscow Alice, let's chat about testing St. Petersburg, Piskarevsky prospect, 2k2Sch, Yandex office, 5th floor
Alice, let's chat about testing
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Program
On July 30, the St. Petersburg office of Yandex will host the event "Alice, let's chat about testing."
The year is 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 the smart home and solutions from other companies. Central theme: testing of such systems, its features and main challenges. During breaks between presentations, 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.
