Get the answers to many questions is becoming easier when driving 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 was created on the basis of neural networks that recognize speech, accents in the voice, create answers and produce the synthesis of the voice of the helper. 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
Yandex was able to create a convenient application for Android smartphones, with which you can spend a fun time and get quick 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.
Alice's virtual voice assistant is created by Yandex to help Windows, Android and iOS users navigate in the Internet space. Personal assistant promptly finds the 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 became possible due to the innovative technologies of neural networks involved.
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 its 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 installing contact with voice assistant, you need to install the application on a personal computer. In the Windows system, the service works in the beta version. For "search engines" 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 enjoy the assistant and the owners of Mobile applications Yandex based on Android and iOS operating systems.
To start the conversation, run the application and tell me: "Hi, Alice" (or click on the button with the microphone).
When you click 👎, Alice offers to report the problem of developers. If you click 👎 by mistake or changed my mind to complain, select No, everything is fine.
Alice does not understand me
If Alice incorrectly recognizes your words (the screen does not appear on the screen that you said), try bringing the microphone closer and tell the phrase clearer. If Alice still shows the wrong text, press 👎 and select Option My speech was not recognized. In mobile applications, you can dial text manually - To do this, click the keyboard icon on the Alice screen.
If your speech is recognized correctly, but Alice answers the nefple or clearly does not understand the question, press 👎 and select the option The answer does not match the question.
Alice misunderstanding words
To tell developers about pronunciation error, press 👎 Under the answer of Alice and select Option Incorrectly announced the text.
Alisa Grubits
Alice is trying to answer each question individually - there is no strict conformity between the question and there is no answer. Not suitable in context, the answer can offend or seem unsuccessful joke. Please inform us about it: press 👎 Under the answer of Alice and select the desired option (for example, Answer anosis or offensive).
Thanks to artificial intelligence "Alice" Perfectly recognizes natural speech (both oral and written). It can be chatted with her on various topics. Answers to questions are pronounced by the program aloud, and are also displayed. You can download Yandex Alice for free for a computer or phone by direct links below where the latest versions of the program are located.
System Requirements for Computer
- System: Windows 10, Windows 8 (8.1) or Windows 7 with X86 / X64 architecture support.
- System: Android 5.0 and above | iOS 9.0 and higher.
| Program capabilities |
| Answers on questions | |
| Quick answers to various questions. Thanks to the artificial intelligence Alice will give answers to questions, without resorting to the search on the Internet (for example, find out where to dine or drink coffee and drink coffee, how to go to the right place, learn the weather forecast or horoscope for today, etc.). In the event that Alice does not know the answer to the question, it will instantly find it on the Internet. | |
| Communication | |
| Communication on free topics. Just say "Alice, let's chat." You can communicate on any topic. Note! In the "Communication" mode Alice will not search for answers on the Internet. Unlike similar Alice programs is not limited to template answers. Voice assistant is enrolled in real time using neural networks and other technologies. | |
| Games | |
| Yandex Alice is not just a voice assistant. With him you can also play different games. For example, guess the animal, I believe or do not believe, riddles, guess the actor, words, zoology, cities. | |
| Computer Management | |
| Starting programs and applications installed on the computer. Tell me how to run and voice assistant will instantly open it. | |
| Opening websites. Just tell me which site to open, and Alice will open it through the Internet browser (for example,In contact with orOdnoklassniki.). | |
| Search and open files. Thanks to the unique Alice algorithm, the desired file will quickly find and opens it. | |
| Computer power management. Just tell her to turn off or restart the computer and it will make it a few seconds. | |
| Providing quick access to frequently used programs and folders. | |
Yandex Alice 4.8.1 for Windows 7 / 8/10
- Psheet program stability.
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
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Participants
Program
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 various 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 a 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.
