Sometimes, when installing on systems adapted to the application, an installation error may occur, why does this happen?
This error can be caused by:
- Bad internet connection;
- Insufficient data transfer rate;
- Firewall operation;
- Blocking the anti-virus program;
- Technical work on the server;
- Insufficient hard disk space/storage;
The virtual assistant is only available for iOS systems and Android, for Windows the application is also adapted, but in 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 poor connection and low speed, just connect your tablet or other device to a reliable wifi networks, download and install voice assistant. If this option does not solve the problem, you must 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 in resolving the issue. The Yandex voice application is installed and takes no more than 20 Mb of disk space, so this problem rarely happens.
Why is the web download page unavailable? Technical work is possible, as well as on the entire Internet space, and when accessing the application page, a line or a sign with an error pops up, which says that the server is unavailable. You need to try again later. After completing all the steps, Alice Yandex should earn.
If more than one method and their combination did not bring results, you can contact a qualified programmer.
Other reasons why Alice Yandex not working
When the device is restarted, 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 answer to the standard challenge phrase - “hello, Alice”. This situation can occur if the voice assistant is removed from autorun. In the "Start" line, you should find the program and start it manually.
You can try to fix the freezing of the application by restarting, that is, disabling and re-enabling the option in the Windows taskbar menu.
If your tablet, smartphone or laptop is not powerful enough, voice communication delays can occur with alice in the output of answers, turning off the speech function should speed up the process, but then you will have to chat, not talk. After deactivating the voice function, Alice needs to be reactivated.
If the problem with communication persists, if the connection and transfer speed are consistently good, contacting Yandex support will allow you to find a rational solution.
Household "blunders" of Alice or be silent, unidentified object
Alice is a voice application that can answer a number of standard questions, find music to suit your mood, or 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 there are no restrictions on the system and accounts, then children will be able to accidentally see "adult" content in the process of communicating with Alice. In order to avoid showing children unwanted pictures and videos, it is recommended to set up protection, one of them is DNS.
Sometimes alice will activate herself and start a conversation. This happens when words are spoken that are consonant with commands to call an assistant, which Alice can hear, such as hello, okay and other greeting words, but the usual “hello” in everyday life, alice does not perceive. 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, when necessary, reconnect it. You can also turn off the microphone, Alice will not hear commands and be activated.
Self-education allows the virtual mind to improve and the more users use the application, the sooner Alice will “grow up and get smarter”, which will make the voice assistant even more convenient and in demand. But even now it's just nice to talk to her, talk to your gadget without using the buttons.
The company "Yandex" has launched an analogue of Siri - the voice assistant "Alisa". Without delay, we gave "Alice" a test of strength.
According to Yandex, the uniqueness of Alisa lies in the fact that she can not only answer with a prepared set of phrases, but also improvise. You can talk to "Alice" without trying to formulate the 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 daring. We downloaded "Alice" and checked how all this is true.
When you hear “Alice” for the first time, you feel that you have 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 "She", where Johansson plays just the voice assistant, with whom the main character falls in love.
The acquaintance begins with the fact that "Alice" talks about her abilities. In fact, she does everything that Siri does - looks at the weather, builds routes, looks for necessary information in 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 test. Let's say I want to know if it will rain in the evening, but I will not ask directly, but how in life: “Should I take an umbrella to work today?”. Unfortunately, “Alice” did not understand such a formulation of the question.
I ask “Alisa” how long it takes me to get to work - the assistant gives two answers, depending on whether I go by car or by public transport. Everything is good here. But for the next question, “Where can I stop by for a bite to eat?” for some reason, the program gives out the address of an esoteric store. Of course, there may be a buffet or cafe at the store, but this is clearly not the best snack option in Moscow.
"Alisa" immediately answers me who sings a 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 of communication "as in life" and understanding of the everyday manner of conversation still leaves much to be desired.
During beta testing in the spring of this year, many users paid attention to the fact that Alice cannot even do such simple things as add two and two, and turns to Yandex search for an answer. These problems have been eliminated in the current version: "Alice" has learned to count and make other mathematical operations, for example, to convert dollars to rubles and vice versa.
However, as soon as "Alice" does not understand what you mean, which happens quite often, she runs to look for the answer in the search engine. Often it turns out stupid, as, for example, it happened with my request to recommend some funny movie.
Why is Alice still better than Siri? We decided to ask the voice assistant herself, but we never received a clear answer.
Yes, with the understanding of the issues, "Alice" is not perfect yet, but she has one more interesting feature- the ability to improvise, thanks to which you can just chat with her when you're bored. "Alisa" really knows how to joke, both to order and on her own. True, apparently the stock of jokes is small, since "Alice" is often repeated.
As for the intellectual development of Alice, Yandex took care of this very badly. 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, Alisa was evaluated by Russian President Vladimir Putin, but even with him, the program did not behave as it should. To the question "Are you offended here?" Alice for some reason replied, "Okay, I'll take it into account." After such embarrassment in front of the first person of the state, I would like to advise “Alisa” only one thing: study, study and study again.
The recently released Alice voice assistant from Yandex has already managed to collect a lot of feedback from interested users. With 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. In its work, failures, freezes, and other dysfunctions unpleasant for the user can be observed. In this article, I will tell you why Alice Yandex does not work for you, and what needs to be done to correct the situation.
We figure out what to do if "Alice" from Yandex does not work for you
What to do if Alice freezes
Restart the program again. Hover over the Windows taskbar (below), select "Panels" from the menu that appears, disable "Voice Assistant" there, and then turn it back on.
In the case of Alice's work on mobile devices ah need to release part random access memory for example by stopping any unnecessary running applications(for a PC, freeing up part of the RAM is less relevant).
After restarting the system, the assistant does not start
Usually, 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, type "Voice Assistant" in the search bar, and click on the result found.
Assistant takes up a lot of memory
Alice activates herself
This happens in a situation where a person pronounces words close in sound to the activation code words of the assistant.
The assistant does not work and does not respond to the question
Check your microphone settings (the system should be able to hear your voice), as well as the quality of your Internet connection. Restart the program, it may have crashed randomly.
When you run the installer, the message "The installation of security update KB3008923 is required" 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 the indicated problem will be solved. Installing the update "KB3008923" in most cases does not solve the problem.
If none of these 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 that you look through the whole range of reasons given by us, highlight the one that is relevant to you, and use the above solution. At the same time, 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 mistakes made by the developers and the shortcomings identified by the users will be effectively resolved.
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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 is a very eloquent statistics (collected by the SEO-Auditor portal), stating that over 90% of domestic users are looking for information in one of the 2 search engines- Google or Yandex. The Mail.ru and Rambler systems remain miserable crumbs of user attention, and many Russian users are completely unaware 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” in 2017. Why is Yandex getting weaker? The answer is simple: because more and more people are accessing 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 lose outright competition 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 the Russian language. Google Assistant is good, but his Russian is still tight; Google Now is very primitive compared to, say, Amazon's Siri and Alexa. Alice is needed by Yandex to maintain 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 did the voice assistant "Alice" come out?
The Yandex company officially introduced Alisa on October 10, 2017. The owners of all devices with iOS and Android can resort to the services of Alice. On a PC with Windows operating system, the assistant continues to work in beta. On other operating systems, the search giant is in no hurry to launch an intelligent assistant.
"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 unfinished 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.
What can the assistant "Alice" from "Yandex" do?
- Lays routes, finds addresses. The program also reports traffic jams.
- Performs a traditional search in the Yandex system.
- Gives weather forecasts.
- Reports the addresses of establishments - cafes, business centers, hostels.
- Performs mathematical operations, converts currencies.
- Starts up third party applications- for example, Instagram and VKontakte.
- He maintains a dialogue, and sometimes even demonstrates musical erudition, quoting songs of 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 - 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 application from Google Play or 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, in 2016, 3.5 billion various devices with voice assistants. 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 “clever” Siri, and Samsung, on the contrary, upsets users with stupid (so far) Bixby. The company "Yandex" also did not stand aside - its assistant "Alisa" in terms of functionality is comparable to the current hit Google Assistant.