Alice where is my husband. We teach Alice from Yandex to recognize you by voice

Hello everyone, my dear friends and guests of my blog. Surely, you already know what Yandex Alice is, or at least heard about it. Alice is a Yandex voice assistant for mobile devices, which, according to the developers, will have to surpass Apple's Siri and other analogues.

Why and when was Alice created?

Please tell me what search engines do you use? Surely your answer will be Yandex or Google. In Russia, Yandex is currently leading by a small margin, but every year Google is getting closer to it. And taking into account the fact that users of Android-based smartphones have the Google Chrome browser by default, where you know who is the default search engine, Yasha does not have long to hold the palm in Russia. Then the guys from Yandex decide to somehow attract users to their side by creating a new voice assistant.

According to the developers, their product bypasses the foreign Google Assistant in all respects. No, of course the Google Assistant is a very cool thing, but it’s still a little tight with the Russian language.

Alice was introduced to a wide audience a week ago, that is, on October 10, 2017. Both Android owners and iPhone owners will be able to take advantage of this solution. On Windows, this is still a bit of a stretch, but you can still use the application in beta mode. I think everything will be fine soon.

What functions does Yandex Alice perform?

Here is a list of some of the features currently available:

Voice search in the Yandex system
Weather forecast
Addresses of various institutions, cinemas, cafes, etc.
Launching installed applications, such as Instagram or VK (the list will expand)
Traffic jams and routes
Dialogue for fun (more on that below)

To use one of the listed functions, you just need to ask about it. At the same time, thanks to SpeechKit speech recognition technology, Alice herself captures the meaning of what was said, so no exact phrases are needed to determine your needs. For example, instead of saying the phrase "Nearest Cafe" you can say something like "Where can you eat here?" and she will gladly answer you.

How and where to download Alice?

This wonderful voice assistant is designed to make life easier for mobile users, so it is equally suitable for both Apple and Android. And since the application is quite official, you can easily find it in specialized repositories depending on your operating system, that is play market for Android and AppStore for iPhones.

In general, you get the point. You just have to score the necessary word in the search for the above services, but then it’s a matter of technology, as they say. The application is absolutely free, so there will be no problems here.

How to use the Alice voice assistant from Yandex?

In fact, there is nothing complicated here. You just need to go to the application you downloaded earlier, open it, then click on the microwave icon, or say "Hi, Alice." A pleasant female voice with a robotic accent will immediately greet you. In secret, I'll tell you that Scarlett Johansson speaks in this voice in the Russian dubbing, which is voiced by the dubbing actress Tatyana Shitova.

The assistant will show you her abilities, but you can ask her questions that interest you, for example "What the weather will be tomorrow", or "Tell me about the movie Savages", "How long do polar bears live" etc.

But besides this, you can even talk with her on simple abstract topics. She even has favorite movies and music if you ask her.

It even got to the point that I called her on a date and offered her a "hand and heart." Don't think badly of me. Everything is fine with the head. It's just interesting to see her reaction to such topics.

But sometimes she even knows how to be offended and end the conversation. I just feel sorry for her.)

Of course, it is still a bit damp, it answers many questions incorrectly, but I think that in the future the developers will fix this feature. In addition, it is assumed that later the system will learn by remembering your actions. Thus, she can turn into a full-fledged interlocutor in the future. You just don’t flirt, otherwise you’ll suddenly really fall in love).

Outcome

In general, despite the fact that the application is still raw, it is already being actively put into operation by users. You look, soon it will really become a full-fledged voice assistant, without which you really will not imagine your life. Wait and see.

Well, on this I will say goodbye to you. Download, install and test Alice. I think you will like it. Well, if you are still not subscribed to my blog updates, then I strongly recommend that you do this so as not to miss really something interesting. Good luck to you! Bye Bye.

Sincerely, Dmitry Kostin

Which immediately acquired a special title among all voice assistants. What? Entertainment queen! If you want to know why it is called that, as well as get acquainted with its wide arsenal of useful commands, then rather start reading this article!

But first, do not forget to install applications from Yandex that have Alice.

Yandex Search

Yandex browser

General commands by category

Navigation

How long does it take to get to work?
How to get to the shopping center?
Where I am?

News

Alice follows all the happenings in the world, so she will tell you about everything, just ask.

Tell the latest news
Tell the politics news
What is the news in the world?

Music

If you can’t imagine leaving the house without headphones, then the voice assistant has something to offer you.

Turn on Christmas music
Turn on "LSD" Asap Rocky
Turn on rock music
What is playing now?
Play sports playlist

Traffic jams

Nobody likes traffic jams, so it's best to find out about them early. Preferably until you hit one of them. Teams:

What is the situation on the roads?
What are the gaps now?

alarm clocks

They, like traffic jams, also have few fans, but a modern person cannot do without an alarm clock.

Show list of alarms
Set an alarm for 6 am
Set an alarm on Saturdays

Timer

Set a timer for 15 minutes
Show list of timers

Rooms

Alice has her own huge telephone directory. How else to explain the fact that she knows all the numbers?

What is the tax phone number?
Ambulance number
Helpline

Web search

Distance to Mars
Who is Freddie Mercury?
How long to cook spaghetti?

Places

Arriving for a meeting too early? Spend the saved time on a cup of coffee nearby.

Where is the cafe nearby?
Find a movie nearby

Websites and Apps

In her free time, Alice surfs the Internet, so she knows the addresses of all sites and will open any application for you.

Open Vkontakte
Go to YouTube
Open Skype

Money

Gathered in another country? Find out how much currency you can purchase.

What is the euro exchange rate?
150 dollars - how much in rubles?
How much does oil cost?
Bitcoin in dollars

Calculator

33 times 15
Factorial 9
What is 150 divided by 8?

Weather

If there is not a cloud in the sky in the morning, this does not mean that there will be no rain in the afternoon. Find out from Alice if you need to take an umbrella.

What is the weather today?
Is it warm in Moscow now?
What's the weather like at the weekend?

Taxi

Stayed away? Alice will easily call Yandex.Taxi for you, you just need to clarify where to go.

call a taxi home
Order a taxi to Lenina, 12
Order a taxi to Domodedovo

Time

Soon to fly to another city, but you do not know how much to translate the clock? Alice will advise.

What time is it in New York right now?
Current time in Saint Petersburg
What time is it now?

Calendar

If on vacation you forgot what date it is today, then you are a lucky person. But it's still worth knowing the date.

What day is today?
Friday is the 10th?
Saturday is what number?

Present

Alice, like all girls, loves everything related to gifts, so she will help you choose the best one.

Recommend a gift
Help with choosing gifts

Toast

Alice has visited enough holidays to now give out the best toast at feasts.

Say a toast
Say a toast to the New Year
Say a toast to robots

Funny Alice Teams

Secrets of bloggers

If you are interested in how in childhood your mother called Stas Davydov, as well as the secret of Sasha Spielberg's success, then Alice will share with you.
Teams:

Let's discuss the secrets of bloggers
Tell the secrets of bloggers

Humor

Something, but love for communication cannot be taken away from Alice. If you have a free minute, then you can cheer yourself up by talking to the voice assistant.

tell a joke
Read the verse
tell me a story
Sing a song
lend money
Let's chat
Do you love me?
How are you doing?

Games

Alice knows just an incredible number of games, you will definitely not get bored with her.

To start the mode, just say "Let's play" and then voice one of the following names:

Guess the number
Gallows
Guess the animal
Puzzles
Faster, higher, stronger
Guess the song
football game
Find the extra
Orb of fate
Divination
Guess the Actor
The words
Cities
What was before
Quest
Zoology

Now you understand why Alice is the leader among voice assistants in terms of entertainment. In addition, it is constantly updated, so this list can expand. You can always find out about all the innovations of the Yandes assistant on our website.

If you have opened any more Alice's commands, then write them in the comments - everyone will be interested!

Hi Alisa.

It becomes easier to get answers to many questions when the voice assistant Alice from Yandex is at hand. Alice Yandex 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, the program has new features and now, in addition to performing search queries

Alice can:

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

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.

Russian actress Tatyana Shitova participated in the creation of the voice. She previously voiced American actress Scarlett Johansson. Coincidence or not, but voiced by the voice of Tatyana Shilova in the science fiction film She spoke to the virtual assistant Samantha. Thanks to this scoring, Alice turned out to be very lively. Sadness, joy and even impudence can be traced in her intonations.

The creators explained why they decided to focus on the virtual assistant. First, the industry is moving towards voice messaging, as the current generation of users prefer voice search over typed typing. Secondly, the construction of algorithms on meaningful dialogues. That is, the virtual assistant understands that subsequent phrases may be related. This is what the dialogue is based on. The Yandex voice assistant Alice is now also in, built-in by default, with her the browser has become much more convenient.

Video review Yandex Alice

How to install Alice Yandex

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.

A universal voice assistant that allows you to conveniently search for information on the Internet, find out the weather for the next period, quickly call a taxi, get directions to a given point and solve many other tasks. Communication with the assistant Alice takes place in the dialogue mode - the assistant not only looks for answers to the questions posed, but also pronounces them in a voice.

Capabilities:

voice communication with a PC user;
searching for information on the Web;
quick answers to standard questions right in the interface window;
application launch;
navigation control.

Principle of operation:

to activate voice search, you need to click on the button at the bottom of the interface or say the phrase "Hi, Alice." After that, the assistant will be ready to carry out your commands. If the answer to the question does not require a thorough search for information on the Web, then the Alice bot pronounces it on its own and displays it in the application interface.

The search is performed in Yandex.Browser. If it is not installed on the computer, a new tab will open in the default browser. If necessary, you can change these parameters in the utility settings.

To complete the work of the assistant, it is enough to say goodbye to him with typical phrases. For example, "Bye" or "Goodbye."

Pros:

variety of responses;
voice assistant Alice can be downloaded for free on a Windows PC, as well as smartphones based on Android and iOS;
the ability to limit the display of "adult" content;

Minuses:

requires a permanent connection to the network;
only one search engine is used - Yandex;
some words are pronounced with an accent.

Alice is a worthy answer to Apple's Yandex and its AI-based service Siri. The program perfectly recognizes Russian speech, pleases with a variety of answers to the same questions, and, most importantly, has a soul - it supports different topics and even sometimes answers with sarcasm.

Analogues:

Navitel Navigator - navigation program with support for voice search;
Yandex.Browser is a powerful browser.

From Yandex they gave the name "Alice" - the developers claim that in honor of Alisa Selezneva, the heroine of Soviet films. Now "Alice" is already available to all owners of the Yandex browser, and it is also installed in various "smart" devices.

In 2017, very eloquent statistics were collected (collected by the SEO-Auditor portal), stating that over 90% of domestic users searched for information in one of the 2 search engines - Google or Yandex. The Mail.ru and Rambler systems were left with miserable crumbs of user attention, and many Russian users did not even suspect the existence of Bing and Yahoo.

At the same time, according to the SEO-Auditor rating, one can understand that Yandex, which was significantly ahead of Google in the middle of 2016, was close to giving the palm in 2017. Why Yandex became weaker? The answer is simple: because more and more people surfed the Internet from mobile devices, and less and less from PCs. On many gadgets, does the default browser work with Yandex? No - any Android smartphone immediately enters Google.

In order to prevent a monopoly in the Russian market of search engines and not to lose outright competition to Google, Yandex tried to offer users something that the "overseas giant" did not give them then. This “something” was supposed to be an intelligent voice assistant that understands the Russian language. Google Assistant was good, but he has obvious problems with Russian; Google Now is very primitive compared to, say, c and Amazon's Alexa. Alice was needed by Yandex to maintain its popularity.

The Russian company managed to release its voice assistant to the mass market before Google Assistant spoke Russian - and this is a significant victory.

In 2019, the company expanded its success - all its own services, and there are many of them (Radio, Navigator, Money and others) are tightly connected with Alice, in addition, their own gadgets appeared that also interact with the assistant. With it, you can launch any of these services, perform a series of actions and manage branded and third-party devices. The possibilities of the assistant do not end there.

When did the voice assistant "Alice" come out?

Yandex officially introduced Alice on October 10, 2017. Owners of all devices with iOS and Android, as well as users of equipment on Windows and other operating systems, can resort to its services.

"Alice" recognizes speech well - moreover, she understands the user perfectly. According to Yandex, the assistant is trained on a huge array of texts, and therefore is a real erudite - she is able to recognize even incomplete questions, given the context of what was said earlier. Unlike the beta version, the official "Alice" has no intonation problems - she speaks in the voice of Tatyana Shitova, the actress who voices Scarlett Johansson.

Yandex likes to involve stars in the voice acting of services - the navigator of this company, for example, is able to speak in the voice of rapper Basta. And in 2019, especially for Yandex, the famous musician Noize MC recorded an audio fairy tale, you can listen to it upon request.

What can the assistant "Alice" from "Yandex" do?

Paves routes, finds addresses, user position, reports traffic jams.
It performs a traditional search in the Yandex system and can quickly answer popular questions, for example, "Who is Jon Snow?".
Gives weather forecasts and tells you what to wear before going out.
Reports the addresses of establishments - cafes, business centers, hostels.
Performs mathematical operations, converts currencies.
Launches applications and opens pages on the Internet, for example, Instagram, VKontakte or the State Services website.
Maintains dialogue, and sometimes even demonstrates erudition, quoting songs, dialogue from films, or referring to books.
It will help you manage time - turn on the alarm clock, timer, create a reminder in the calendar.
Can play a game - "Find the extra", "Ball of fate", "What happened before." The list is not exhausted by this, but you can find out what else is included on the request "Alice, let's play."
It will help pass the time - sing a song, repeat the phrase after the user, translate and pronounce it in a foreign language, turn on a fairy tale, determine the song, turn on the music.
Turns on devices connected to the smart home and allows them to be controlled.
Will help to make the first and repeated order on the service.
Will call a specific number.

Yandex uses numerous resources to promote Alice. So the voice assistant is tightly integrated into the company's proprietary applications - Taxi, Radio, Navigator and others.

Not without the support of "smart" home systems. Many have heard about "" - this is with voice control. However, in addition to its own devices, Yandex has agreements with other brands. Alice supports Elari Smartbeat, Irbis A, Xboom AI ThinQ WK7Y smart speakers, can work with Smartbox TV set-top box, Elari KidPhone 3G watch for children and Ear Duo Bluetooth headphones. The list of partners does not end there. It includes Redmond, and a host of other famous brands (there are more than 100 in total).

The developers did a great job to "humanize" Alice as much as possible - therefore, the voice assistant from Yandex is able to humor no worse than Siri, some of whose pearls have become popular memes. Here's how "Alice" explains why she's called that:

Alice's answers are really funny in the extreme, and the voice of the assistant sounds quite natural (much better than in the beta version) - thanks to machine learning technologies, the splicing is almost invisible. Those who are annoyed by small "speech defects" can turn off the voice and read "Alice's" answers.

How to install "Alice" on a smartphone?

You can download Alice to your smartphone by downloading and installing the official Yandex app from Google Play or the AppStore. You should launch the application and press the blue key with the image of a microphone, located exactly in the middle of the screen.

A correspondence window will appear, where old requests and answers given to them by "Alice" will be displayed. By clicking on the button with the microphone icon again, the user will be able to make a new voice request.

Conclusion

According to statistics, already in 2016, 3.5 billion different devices with voice assistants were used in the world. According to experts, by 2021 the number of such devices may double. Statistics show that we are at the stage of formation of a powerful global brand - in the near future, a company that did not give the world an intelligent assistant created by itself will be considered an outsider.

All major software developers have already acquired voice assistants that work to varying degrees effectively: for example, Apple pleases its fans with the “clever” Siri, and Samsung, on the contrary, upsets users. Yandex also did not stand aside - its assistant "Alisa" from the point of view of functionality is getting better, and using it is really convenient and interesting.