Voice assistant "Alice". All about Alice: what is the Yandex voice assistant capable of? Alice Yandex application on PC

Alice will answer any user questions (those for which she does not know the answer - she studies and searches on the Internet), and will also help to get home by building a route for drivers, cyclists, pedestrians, or paving the way on public transport.

Alice was developed by Yandex and is accordingly synchronized with all the company’s services: maps, navigation, weather, movie posters, browser, etc.

The assistant is convenient when it is not possible to enter data into the phone, for example, at -40, you can type on your smartphone which bus is going to a certain stop - just call it with 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: what region and city, mobile operator, organization out of 5 million and other parameters;
• provide weather forecasts accurate to the area, report the latest news, notify about important messages;
• lay out routes: for cars, cyclists, pedestrians and call a taxi;
• find any places nearby: pharmacies, shops, cinemas, theaters, parks, etc.;
• just chatting about life and even playing.

It’s easy to download, install and use the Alice application on Android - first of all, you need to download the APK file or through the Google store using the links below. Then install it as a normal program and run it. That's all! Now the assistant is on your Android phone.

Take out the phone, bring it to your mouth and say: “Listen, Alice!” or “Hello, Alice!”, to which the assistant will respond and help you find information or quickly give you an answer.

You can download the program either separately or 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 - enable.

For all other cases, links are available below where you can download Alice voice assistant in Russian, a free application for Android devices.

Numerous capabilities of a mobile gadget - a smartphone - are now available for voice control. One of the most important advantages of Alice's assistant is good recognition of Russian speech. Moreover, the voice assistant “understands” even unfinished questions well. And although the assistant developer does not yet have a personal version of Alice for mobile gadgets, owners of both Android smartphones and iOS devices can still take advantage of the Alice service and all its advantages.

Installing Alice on Android devices

• Find and open the pre-installed Play Store app store on your smartphone.
• Type “Yandex” in the search bar and download this mobile application by pressing the “Install” button.
• Once the installation is complete, a new icon will appear on the desktop screen - a round red icon with the letter “I” in the center.
• Click this icon (open the application).
• The usual “Yandex” inscription and a search bar for entering queries will appear on the screen.
• To activate the voice assistant, you need to click the lilac (or blue) microphone image, which is located below the search bar.

If the user does not want to launch Yandex every time he needs the Alice assistant, he can save the icon for launching the voice assistant (lilac microphone) on the smartphone’s desktop.

• Go to widget settings.

To do this, either press and hold your finger on an empty space on the screen (until the settings mode opens), or press the “Applications” key, or make the transition: “Widgets” icon – “Applications and Widgets”.

• Browse through the widgets on your device until you find Yandex widgets.
• Among the icons of this folder, select the icon with the image of a lilac microphone.
• Hold it with your finger and move it to the main screen (desktop) to a place convenient for you.

Installing Alice on iOS devices

• Go to the Google Play service (Play Store).
• Enter “Yandex” in the search bar.
• Click the “Install” button.
• To launch Alice, just click the purple square icon with a microphone.

• Go to your device's home screen.
• Swipe left (touch the left side of the screen and move your finger to the right).
• A section with widgets will appear. Go to the bottom of the screen and press the “Edit” key.
• The Add Widgets screen will open.
• Find the line “Yandex: Today” in the list above and click the round green icon with a white plus sign next to it.
• Next, click and hold your finger on the icon located to the right of the “Yandex: Today” inscription. Drag the line to the first position in the list of device widgets.
• To activate Alice, just click the round icon with the image of a white triangle on a lilac background.

Alice assistant capabilities

• Find the required address and get directions to it, not forgetting to notify about traffic jams.
• Find out the weather forecast.
• Find the address of the establishment you are interested in - a hotel or hostel, a cafe or restaurant, a business center or a museum.
• Perform currency conversion or mathematical calculations.
• Launch other applications, including social networks.

Yandex Alice is a personal virtual assistant that simulates a live conversation between you and the device, recognizes spoken and written speech in Russian.

Gives answers to any questions while simultaneously developing - self-learning.

Today, voice assistants are no longer a novelty; most well-known companies have them, such as Google, Apple, Microsoft and others. Now Yandex is one of the corporations that has its own conversational engine with training and development functions.

You can download Yandex Alice on your PC for free, install, launch and just talk to it, for example like this:

• Hello!
• Hello.
• Who invented you like this?
• Programmers from the company and many others.

Or you can play with her in cities, ask her to make the sound louder or quieter, report traffic jams, get directions, call someone, etc.

After downloading and installing the program on a Windows PC, you can activate it by saying: “Listen, Alice!” Then ask to find something or tell them what the weather forecast is, traffic jams, and more.

You can download Yandex virtual assistant on your computer or laptop for free as a separate utility using the link below, and using this link you can download Yandex browser with Alice.

Download Alice app

The assistant will prove itself in the best traditions of artificial intelligence, especially if Yandex applications such as Maps, Transport, Weather, Widget, Taxi and others are installed on the user’s device. And if the mobile program is missing, the assistant will offer to download it to your phone and smartphone/tablet.

Features of using Alice

The main thing is to solve ordinary problems every day. The following functionality is available for free on your computer and phone, with which you can:

1. search for the necessary information online on a PC/laptop or through the Alice application on an Android smartphone/tablet;
2. find places and get directions to them by car, on foot and by public transport;
3. find out the weather forecast and much more.

It is integrated by default into all Yandex products and you can launch Alice with a voice command. Without an assistant, you can download the Yandex browser from this link, and you can disable it in already installed applications through Settings on the main screen.

Hello Alice.

It becomes easier to get answers to many questions when you have the Alice voice assistant from Yandex at hand. Alice Yandex 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 created on the basis of neural networks that 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, the program gains new capabilities, and now in addition to performing search queries

Alice can:

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

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.

Russian actress Tatyana Shitova participated in creating the voice. She previously voiced American actress Scarlett Johansson. Coincidence or not, but the voice of Tatyana Shilova in the science fiction film She spoke to the virtual assistant Samantha. Thanks to this voice acting, Alice turned out to be very alive. Her intonations reveal sadness, joy and even insolence.

The creators explained why they decided to focus on the virtual assistant. First, the industry is moving towards voice messaging as today's generation of users prefer voice search over typing. Secondly, building algorithms on meaningful dialogues. That is, the virtual assistant understands that subsequent phrases may be interrelated. This is what the dialogue is based on. The Yandex Alice voice assistant is now built in by default, making the browser much more convenient.

Video review of 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 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.