The recently released voice assistant “Alice” from Yandex has already collected a lot of feedback from interested users. Despite all the advantages of Alice, including a high level of voice recognition, integration with Yandex services, convenient activation and the ability to maintain a contextual dialogue, this assistant does not always work correctly. Its operation may experience glitches, freezes, and other dysfunctions that are unpleasant for the user. IN this material I will tell you why Alice Yandex does not work for you, and what needs to be done to correct the situation.

Let's figure out what to do if Alice from Yandex doesn't work for you

What to do if Alice freezes

Restart the program again. Hover over the Windows taskbar (at the bottom), select “Panels” from the menu that appears, turn off “Voice Assistant” there, and then turn it on again.

In the case of “Alice” working on mobile devices ah need to release a part random access memory for example, stopping any unnecessary running applications(for PCs, freeing up some RAM is less important).

After rebooting the system, the assistant does not start

Typically, this dysfunction occurs in a situation where, for some reason, “Alice” was removed from the startup of your system. To solve the problem, try running Alice yourself. Click on the “Start” button, enter “Voice Assistant” in the search bar, and click on the result found.

Assistant takes up a lot of memory

Alice activates on her own

This happens in a situation when a person pronounces words similar in sound to code words assistant activation.

The assistant does not work and does not respond to questions

Check your microphone settings (the system must hear your voice), as well as the quality of your Internet connection. Restart the program; it may have accidentally crashed.

When you run the installer, the message “You must install security update KB3008923” appears (on Windows 7).

This update is a security patch for the IE browser.

To solve this problem, install “Internet Explorer 11” for Windows 7 on your PC, after which this problem will be solved. Installing the “KB3008923” update in most cases does not solve the problem.

If none of the above tips helped you, I recommend contacting Yandex support for help with the specifics of your question.

Conclusion

If Alice Yandex does not work in your system, then I recommend looking through the entire range of reasons we have given, highlighting the one that is relevant to you, and using the solution given above. It is important to understand that the version of the program is still quite “raw” and is only being tested on the systems of many users. A stable version of the product should be expected no earlier than in a few months, when most of the errors made by developers and shortcomings identified by users will be effectively resolved.

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Sometimes, when installing on systems adapted to the application, an installation error may occur, why does this happen?

This error can be caused by:

• Poor internet connection;
• Insufficient data transfer speed;
• Firewall operation;
• Blocking the antivirus program;
• Technical work on the server;
• Insufficient hard drive/storage space;

The virtual assistant is available only for iOS and Android systems; the application is also adapted for Windows, but in a beta version; for other systems the application is still in development. Install on Windows (except 7-10), JavaFX Mobile, SymbOS and other OS on this moment impossible.

To eliminate a poor connection and low speed, just connect your tablet or other device to a reliable wi-fi networks, download and install voice assistant. If this option does not solve the problem, you need to disable antivirus program and firewall, restart the system and try to download and install again.

If there is not enough space, cleaning the device from unnecessary programs and files will help resolve the issue. The Yandex voice application is installed and takes up no more than 20 Mb of disk space, so this problem rarely happens.

Why is the internet download page unavailable? Engineering works are possible, as is the case throughout the Internet, and when you access the application page, a line or error message pops up stating that the server is unavailable. You must try again later. After completing all the steps, Alice Yandex should start working.

If more than one method or their combination does not bring results, you can contact a qualified programmer.

Other reasons why Alice Yandex does not work

When you restart the device, Alice does not start automatically, a line or icon is not displayed in the menu quick access, and alice can't hear or talk. There is no response to the standard challenge phrase - “hello, Alice”. This situation can happen if the voice assistant is removed from autorun. In the “Start” line, you should find the program and run it manually.

You can try to fix an application freeze by restarting it, that is, disabling and re-enabling the option in the Windows taskbar menu.

If your tablet, smartphone or laptop is not powerful enough, when communicating with Alice by voice there may be delays in the output of responses; turning off the speech function, the process should speed up, but then you will have to chat rather than talk. After deactivating the voice function, Alice must be activated again.

If communication problems persist, if the connection and transmission speed are consistently good, contacting Yandex support will allow you to find a rational solution.

Alice's everyday "blunders" or remain silent, unidentified object

Alice is a voice application that can answer a number of standard questions, find music to suit your mood, and even just keep up a conversation. Humor is not alien to this car. The developers endowed the application with its own intelligence, but this did not make it a conscious mind.

If restrictions are not set on the system and accounts, then children will be able to accidentally see “adult” content while communicating with Alice. To avoid showing children unwanted pictures and video material, it is recommended to install protection, one of them is DNS.

Sometimes alice itself activates and starts communicating. This happens when words are spoken that are consonant with commands for calling an assistant, which Alice can hear, such as hello, okay and other greeting words, but Alice does not perceive the usual “hello” in everyday life. The developers stated very high quality speech recognition, but in practice this sometimes happens. To prevent unwanted activation of the voice assistant, you can simply turn it off and connect it again when necessary. You can also turn off the microphone, Alice will not hear commands and will not be activated.

Self-education allows the virtual mind to improve, and the more users use the application, the sooner Alice will “grow up and become wiser,” which will make the voice assistant even more convenient and in demand. But even now it’s just nice to communicate with her, talk to your gadget without using buttons.

Yandex has launched an analogue of Siri – the voice assistant “Alice”. Without hesitation, we gave “Alice” a strength test.

According to Yandex, the uniqueness of “Alice” lies in the fact that it can not only respond with a prepared set of phrases, but also improvise. You can speak to “Alice” without trying to formulate your request as clearly as possible, but in simple human language, and she will understand you. “Alice” has a character, she can be sad or happy depending on the situation, she has a sense of humor, and if necessary, she can even be insolent. We downloaded “Alice” and checked how true all this is.

Hearing “Alice” for the first time, you feel like you’ve known her for a long time. The fact is that the voice assistant speaks in the voice of Scarlett Johansson, or rather actress Tatyana Shitova, who duplicates the Hollywood star in all films. Including in the film “Her,” where Johansson plays the voice assistant with whom the main character falls in love.

The acquaintance begins with “Alice” talking about her capabilities. Essentially, it does everything that Siri does - looks at the weather, builds routes, and searches for the necessary information on the Internet. At the same time, we are told that “Alice” will understand the question regardless of the wording. Okay, let's do a little check. Let’s say I want to know whether it will rain in the evening, but I will ask not directly, but as in life: “Should I take an umbrella to work today?” Unfortunately, “Alice” did not understand this formulation of the question.

I ask “Alice” how long it will take me to get to work - the assistant gives two answers, depending on whether I go by car or by public transport. Everything is fine here. But for the next question, “Where can I stop for a snack along the way,” the program for some reason gives the address of an esoteric store. Of course, maybe there is a buffet or cafe next to the store, but this is clearly not the best snack option in Moscow.

“Alice” immediately answers me who sings the song about “Louboutins”, but when asked when “Leningrad” has the next concert in Moscow, she gives me the address of one of the theater and concert box office points called “Concert”. In general, the promised technology for communicating “as in life” and understanding everyday conversation patterns still leaves much to be desired.

During beta testing in the spring of this year, many users noticed that Alice cannot even do such simple things as add two and two, and for the answer they turn to Yandex search. These problems have been eliminated in the current version: “Alice” has learned to count and perform other mathematical operations, for example, convert dollars to rubles and back.

However, as soon as “Alice” does not understand what you mean, which happens quite often, she runs to look for the answer in a search engine. It often turns out stupid, like what happened with my request to recommend a funny movie.

Why is Alice better than Siri? We decided to ask the voice assistant itself, but we never received a clear answer.

Yes, with “Alice’s” understanding of questions, not everything is perfect yet, but she has one more interesting feature- the ability to improvise, thanks to which you can simply chat with her when you’re bored. “Alice” really knows how to joke, both to order and at her own request. True, apparently the stock of jokes is small, since “Alice” is often repeated.

As for intellectual development"Alice", then "Yandex" took care of this very poorly. The voice assistant, according to her own assurances, loves the classics, but does not see the difference between Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.

A couple of weeks ago, “Alice” was evaluated by Russian President Vladimir Putin, but even with him, the program did not behave as it should have. To the question “Are you being offended here?” For some reason, Alice replied, “Okay, I’ll keep that in mind.” After such an embarrassment in front of the first person of the state, I would like to advise “Alice” only one thing: study, study and study again.

Since mid-May, the feeds of portals dedicated to mobile electronics have been full of news that Yandex is testing its own voice assistant - an analogue of the Apple assistant Siri. The voice assistant from Yandex was given 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 mobile application"Yandex".

There are very eloquent statistics (collected by the SEO-Auditor portal) stating that over 90% of domestic users are looking for information in one of 2 search engines– Google or Yandex. The Mail.ru and Rambler systems are left with pitiful crumbs of user attention, and many Russian users are not even aware of 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 mid-2016, is close to giving the “palm of championship” in 2017. Why is Yandex becoming weaker? The answer is simple: because more and more people access the Internet from mobile devices, and less and less from PCs. How many gadgets have the default browser running Yandex? No - any Android smartphone immediately goes to Google.

In order to prevent a monopoly on Russian market search engines and not lose outright to Google, Yandex is trying to offer users something that the “overseas giant” has not yet given them. This “something” should be an intelligent voice assistant that understands Russian. Google Assistant is good, but it still struggles with Russian; Google Now is very primitive compared to, say, Siri and Amazon's Alexa. Yandex needs Alice 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.

When was the Alice voice assistant released?

Yandex officially introduced Alice on October 10, 2017. Owners of all devices with iOS and Android can use Alice’s services. On PCs running Windows, the assistant continues to work in beta version. The search giant is in no hurry to launch the intelligent assistant on other operating systems.

"Alice" recognizes speech well - moreover, it understands the user perfectly. According to Yandex, the assistant is trained on a huge array of texts, and therefore is a true erudite - she is able to recognize even unfinished questions, taking into account the context of what was said earlier. Unlike the beta version, the official "Alice" has no problems with intonation - 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.

What can the Alice assistant from Yandex do?

• Plots routes, finds addresses. The program also reports traffic jams.
• Performs a traditional search in the Yandex system.
• Gives weather forecasts.
• Provides addresses of establishments - cafes, business centers, hostels.
• Performs mathematical operations, converts currencies.
• Launches third party applications- for example, Instagram and VKontakte.
• He maintains a dialogue, and sometimes even demonstrates musical erudition, quoting songs by various performers - from the Aquarium group to Oxxxymiron.

It is expected that over time, many other large companies will also give Alice access to their applications.

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

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

How to install Alice on a smartphone?

You can download Alice to your smartphone by downloading and installing the official Yandex application from Google Play or AppStore. You should launch the application and press the blue button 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, in 2016, 3.5 billion various devices with voice assistants. According to experts, by 2021 the number of such devices may double. Statistics convince us that we are at the stage of formation of a powerful global brand - soon a company that has not given 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, while Samsung, on the contrary, upsets users with the stupid (for now) Bixby. Yandex also did not stand aside - its assistant “Alice”, in terms of functionality, is comparable to the current hit Google Assistant.