Alice is a virtual voice assistant in Yandex Browser. Responds to user audio requests and supports text chat. He can search for information on the Internet, talk about the weather, news, turn on music and launch applications, and talk on any topic.
For some users, the disappearance of the browser assistant and Windows taskbar is a problem. Where to look? How to recover? We used it, we worked – and now it’s gone. If you have a similar situation, no need to worry. You can restore Alice on your computer, laptop, or mobile phone through the Yandex Browser settings and by reinstalling the program. We will show you how this is done step by step.
Important! Alice is supported only in Yandex.Browser and exclusively in Russian.
What can Alice do?
- Alice is built into the proprietary Yandex Browser and understands the Russian language
- Helps quickly find information, opens websites upon user request
- Works with the database. Uses servers to receive data. Can show the weather forecast, the latest news in the world.
- Alice can make a call to a person from the telephone directory, call a taxi and simply talk to the user.
Amazing Voice Assistant Features
- Guess the hero. The user can wish for any character. Alice will specify the questions in order to guess who the mystery was.
- Test for Covid. Alice will help determine the risk of infection in a dialogue with the user. An oral test has been developed for this purpose.
- Purchases. You can make purchases without leaving your home. Order products from the list and have them delivered to your home.
- All about travel. With Alice you can find out about the nearest flight, ticket prices and even book a hotel.
- Entertainment for children. The voice assistant will read fairy tales to your children and play an exciting game with the children. The child must guess the cartoon based on the passage that Alice reproduces.
- Alice for business. Through a chat with a bot, you can manage your profile in Bitrix Assistant. Exchange messages, prepare a presentation and schedule a meeting.
You can find out a complete list of skills by asking Alice what she can do.
What is the voice assistant Alice?
As mentioned earlier, Alice is a voice-controlled virtual assistant. Production of the assistant at Yandex began in 2021. The idea of creating a virtual assistant was not innovative; large Western companies had already introduced Siri from Google and Alexa from Amazon. Developing such a large project as creating a voice assistant is not an easy task. Nevertheless, Yandex specialists did an excellent job and already on October 10, 2021, the program was added to the company’s search application, which means anyone could ask: “Alice, how are you doing?”
This is interesting: when creating the assistant, Yandex specialists relied on the experience of Western companies. Please note that Siri, Alexa and Cortana speak in female voices. Why not show a little originality?
Yandex almost decided to give its assistant a male voice, but after a series of studies and surveys it turned out that a female voice is more pleasant to the user.
As expected, many people liked the virtual assistant that recognizes live speech. In just six months, Alice was installed by more than 50% of users on their smartphones . If you want to install the program on your PC, but don’t know how to do it, read on.
How to install Alice on your phone
To install Alice on your gadget, you must perform the following steps.
- 1. Launch Play Market or AppStore. In the search bar you must enter “Yandex-with Alice”. Click the Install button to start downloading.
- 2.Click on the Open button to launch the application and connect its initial settings.
- 3. Scroll the page, explore the application features and select "Get Started"
- 4. Click the Allow button to allow the application to access your location, microphone. Thus, you can get accurate recommendations, information about the situation on the road, and the weather.
- 5. To launch Alice, click on the blue icon with a white triangle on the main page of the screen
- 6. A list of voice assistant skills will appear. Give any command by voice or write it in text to start working with Alice. For example, to play a song
- 7. Click on the blue “All Skills” label to see the full list of assistant functions. say: “Alice, open a social network.”
- The setup process is complete. After this, you can use the voice assistant on your phone. To do this, simply launch “Alice” through the shortcut on the main screen.
How to display Yandex on the main screen of your phone
If there is a need to display a search string on the phone's home screen, you should perform a number of actions:
- on the device, go to the section with widgets - to do this, you need to long press on any point on the screen, after which an additional menu should appear;
- in the window that opens, select - widgets;
- select the appropriate one from the proposed list of elements;
- Hold the appropriate line with your finger and transfer it to the screen.
Several design options are available to users. In addition to the search bar, the screen will display the weather in the region where you are located. You can also select a search bar that will show your phone's battery charge, temperature, and information about traffic jams.
How to enable Alice on Android via Google Assistant
Google provides its users with the ability to launch Google Assistant on the locked screen of their phone. But it does not allow you to change the voice assistant. But there is a way out. You can use Alice through Google Assistant.
- Install Google Assistant.
- Activate the voice assistant in the application.
To do this you need:
- Open Google app
- Select Settings and then click on Voice Assistant
- Select OK Recognition, Google
- Assistant activated
Activate or unlock the Voice Match feature.
Voice Match is a feature that allows you to unlock your phone with a person's voice command.
Google app → Settings → Voice Search → Voice Match). Click the “Unlock with Voice Match” switch.
The system will warn you that the device can be unlocked by fraudsters. (many people have similar voices, for example relatives). Click “OK”.
The setup for unlocking your Android device using your voice is complete.
Lock your phone and say: “Okay Google” - the phone will go into active mode without necessarily requiring you to enter a password. Next we move on to Alice.
Here you can use several voice commands: “Open Yandex” or “Open the Yandex application”.
The Yandex application will open (Alice is built into it). Say: "Listen, Alice" or "Hello, Alice."
Voice assistant Alice is activated.
Launching custom applications
Among other things, the voice assistant can be used as an assistant to launch other applications installed on the device. To do this, just say the name of the desired program into the microphone, and Alice will log into it.
In addition, it can be used to open any folders located on the device, as well as pictures, videos and audio. The voice assistant will help you quickly make a call. To do this, just name the subscriber as he is recorded in the phone book.
Important! Alice installed on a personal computer can turn off or restart the PC on its own.
How to enable Alice on your phone with the Yandex application
Many users find it more convenient to work with Alice through a proprietary browser. How to do it?
It is very easy to enable voice assistant on your Android phone. To do this, just install the Yandex application. Alice is built into the browser. Just say Hello Alice and it will activate. And then click on the application icon that appears in the search bar.
You can see that in the search bar there is an emblem in the form of three dots. A section with various Yandex functions will appear. Click on Settings. In the application settings, find the Voice capabilities tab and click on it. In the list of options, select the Yandex voice assistant and add an icon to the home screen.
Be sure to give your browser permission to determine your location. Access to audio recording. This is necessary so that Alice can recognize your voice, hear the user and start a dialogue with him.
Why do you need to display the Yandex line on your phone screen?
All owners of mobile devices running on the Android operating system automatically get the opportunity to use the Yandex search bar. Thanks to it, you can receive timely and complete information by activating the notification panel. For users who have installed the Yandex.Search application, the panel line is activated automatically.
How to set up Alice on your phone
To activate Alice's options, configure artificial intelligence for yourself. To do this, you can use the application settings. Click on the three horizontal lines in the upper left corner and a menu will appear on the screen. In the menu, select the “Settings” section, here you can configure the order of the news feed on the screen, set your region of residence, and enable or disable query history. You can enable or disable keyboard prompts while a query is running.
In addition, in the settings, set the browser you prefer to work with and set the information filter for adults. You can also activate or deactivate the voice assistant and even set activation phases, allowing you to avoid pressing the microphone button every day
Alice from Yandex: its capabilities on a smartphone
Alisa is a domestic voice assistant from Yandex with quite a lot of functionality and a pleasant voice - actress Tatyana Shitova. Alice is a self-learning artificial intelligence. Its knowledge base is regularly updated with new requests from users. The assistant knows how to give impromptu answers to the same questions, taking into account the context of the conversation.
On smartphones, the bot can perform the following actions:
- tell the weather for any day in any city;
- turn on the music;
- determine your location;
- create a to-do list (dictated tasks will go to the Yandex cloud service);
- guess the song;
- get directions;
- talk about traffic jams;
- launch some third-party utilities, for example, Instagram, VKontakte;
- tell an anecdote, poem, fairy tale;
- joke;
- recommend a movie to watch;
- calculate using the built-in calculator;
Alice can count simple arithmetic problems with one operation
- search for information on the Internet.
Video: what Alice can do
How to use Alice on Android
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How to use Alice on your phone?
You need to click on the white icon with a blue triangle under the Yandex search bar. And ask a question Open the Yandex browser and click on the microphone icon. Then ask a question
In which browser can you work with Alice?
Only in Yandex browser
Alice only works when there is Internet access. If the user has connection problems, it is necessary to configure offline search. The application can download results for search queries in advance. And it will show this data in the absence of Internet.
How to setup
- Go to Settings and scroll down to the offline search block
- Click on a single menu block. In the search settings, enable the option using the switch.
Searching for information on the Internet
You can install the Alice voice assistant on your Android phone to make it easier to search for information on the Internet. With it, there is no need to go into the browser and type a request - just say it in words, and the program itself will provide the necessary information. The main thing is to formulate the question correctly, and in this case Alice will be able to give a detailed and correct answer.
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In some cases, the message can be used as a search query. In this case, the application can automatically open the browser, which will open the search results page.
In addition to general information, the voice assistant can easily display the following information on the screen:
- Displays the weather in various cities around the world. At the same time, Alice understands the abbreviations EKB, SPB, MSK.
- Shows information about traffic jams.
- Shows the estimated price of air tickets and flight duration.
- Build a route between two points.
- Solve simple mathematical examples.
Additional Information! Upon request, the assistant instantly opens the required website or the desired Yandex service in the browser.
Some of the main functions of the voice assistant
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To start communicating with the assistant, you need to launch the browser by clicking on the corresponding icon on the desktop.
The start page will load, where the search line is located. On the left side, you need to click on the microphone icon and say the command.
The user is allowed to add photos to the chat with the robot so that she can determine what is shown in the picture or answer where the photo was taken. To use the tool, in the chat that starts on the right, click on the camera icon.
If the application is denied access to the camera, the surfer will be asked to go to the settings and allow the use of the camera and albums to achieve the goal. Click on the “Allow” button.
The settings will launch, where you need to move the slider to the right.
After performing these simple steps, the user will be able to explore all the capabilities of the unusual assistant.
The main functions of Alice in managing a smart home
The initiative in the form of “Yandex.Station” has grown from a multimedia platform into a virtual assistant “Alice”.
The fact that Yandex would sooner or later create a “smart home” project under the control of its notorious assistant was a matter of time.
First you need to create a home control center. This role can be performed by any accessory that contains “Alice”. The main and only requirement is constant access to the Internet , because without it, the program will not be able to accept user requests, since commands are processed on Yandex servers, and not by the device itself.
More information about the functionality of the “smart home”:
- The Redmond kettle Alice can only turn on and off. “Alice,” unfortunately, currently does not have the ability to heat it to a certain temperature or remind about the necessary water change.
- The Redmond smart base is installed in the lamp, and ordinary light bulbs are screwed into the base itself. Such a “smart device” can only turn the light on or off.
- Smart plugs. The functions are extremely trivial - turn on power or turn off power. It is recommended to connect a humidifier or fan to such outlets.
- A smart light bulb looks the most useful among all the accessories. “Alice” will not only be able to turn it on and off, but also adjust the brightness and change the color.
- The Yandex remote control can currently only control TVs and air conditioners. Both the remote control and Alice perform the same list of tasks: adjusting the volume, changing channels, turning on and off.
