<s>
Alice	B-Operating_System
(	O
(	O
Alisa	B-Operating_System
)	O
)	O
is	O
a	O
Russian	O
intelligent	B-Protocol
personal	I-Protocol
assistant	I-Protocol
for	O
Android	B-Application
,	O
iOS	B-Application
and	O
Windows	B-Application
operating	I-Application
systems	I-Application
and	O
Yandex	O
's	O
own	O
devices	O
developed	O
by	O
Yandex	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Alice	B-Operating_System
was	O
officially	O
introduced	O
on	O
10	O
October	O
2017	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Aside	O
from	O
common	O
tasks	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
internet	O
search	B-Application
or	O
weather	O
forecasts	O
,	O
it	O
can	O
also	O
run	O
applications	O
and	O
chit-chat	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Alice	B-Operating_System
is	O
also	O
the	O
virtual	B-Protocol
assistant	I-Protocol
used	O
for	O
the	O
Yandex	O
Station	O
smart	B-Device
speaker	I-Device
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
development	O
of	O
Alice	B-Operating_System
began	O
at	O
the	O
end	O
of	O
2016	O
,	O
when	O
the	O
IT	O
market	O
was	O
trending	O
toward	O
the	O
development	O
of	O
virtual	B-Protocol
assistants	I-Protocol
:	O
the	O
market	O
already	O
had	O
Siri	B-Application
from	O
Apple	O
,	O
Google	B-Application
Assistant	I-Application
,	O
Amazon	B-Application
Alexa	I-Application
,	O
and	O
Cortana	B-Application
from	O
Microsoft	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
At	O
that	O
time	O
,	O
Yandex	O
had	O
already	O
implemented	O
voice	B-Application
control	I-Application
in	O
Search	B-Application
,	O
Navigator	B-Application
,	O
and	O
other	O
applications	O
,	O
and	O
was	O
busy	O
creating	O
a	O
voice	B-Protocol
assistant	I-Protocol
capable	O
of	O
interacting	O
with	O
humans	O
in	O
a	O
meaningful	O
dialogue	O
-	O
a	O
fundamentally	O
more	O
complex	O
system	O
that	O
uses	O
a	O
multilayer	O
neural	B-Architecture
network	I-Architecture
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
official	O
launch	O
of	O
Alice	B-Operating_System
was	O
announced	O
on	O
October	O
10	O
,	O
2017	O
:	O
the	O
assistant	O
appeared	O
in	O
the	O
Yandex	B-Application
search	I-Application
app	O
for	O
Android	B-Application
and	O
iOS	B-Application
and	O
a	O
beta	O
version	O
of	O
the	O
voice	B-Protocol
assistant	I-Protocol
for	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Windows	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
According	O
to	O
Yandex	O
statistics	O
published	O
in	O
May	O
2018	O
,	O
Alice	B-Operating_System
is	O
installed	O
in	O
53%	O
of	O
smartphones	B-Application
in	O
Russia	O
and	O
is	O
available	O
in	O
the	O
navigator	B-Application
in	O
more	O
than	O
20	O
million	O
cars	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
special	O
feature	O
of	O
Alice	B-Operating_System
was	O
the	O
personality	O
developed	O
by	O
the	O
Yandex	O
team	O
together	O
with	O
journalist	O
and	O
former	O
head	O
of	O
the	O
company	O
's	O
marketing	O
group	O
Vladimir	O
Guriev	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
decided	O
that	O
the	O
voice	B-Protocol
assistant	I-Protocol
would	O
be	O
a	O
young	O
,	O
ironic	O
girl	O
,	O
ready	O
to	O
help	O
the	O
owner	O
of	O
a	O
smartphone	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
voice	O
of	O
"	O
Alice	B-Operating_System
"	O
was	O
dubbing	O
actress	O
Tatiana	O
Shitova	O
,	O
who	O
voiced	O
most	O
of	O
Scarlett	O
Johansson	O
's	O
characters	O
and	O
the	O
voice	O
of	O
OS1	O
,	O
who	O
called	O
herself	O
"	O
Samantha	O
"	O
,	O
in	O
the	O
Russian	O
dubbing	O
of	O
Spike	O
Jonze	O
's	O
"	O
Her	O
"	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Choosing	O
a	O
name	O
for	O
the	O
voice	B-Protocol
assistant	I-Protocol
went	O
through	O
several	O
stages	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
First	O
,	O
Yandex	O
staff	O
compiled	O
a	O
list	O
of	O
names	O
that	O
they	O
thought	O
were	O
appropriate	O
for	O
the	O
voice	B-Protocol
assistant	I-Protocol
in	O
character	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
the	O
final	O
survey	O
with	O
a	O
large	O
margin	O
won	O
the	O
name	O
Alice	B-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
families	O
with	O
other	O
Alices	B-Operating_System
,	O
the	O
voice	B-Protocol
assistant	I-Protocol
added	O
an	O
optional	O
activation	O
by	O
the	O
"	O
Listen	O
,	O
Yandex	O
"	O
command	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
"	O
Alice	B-Operating_System
"	O
is	O
built	O
into	O
various	O
Yandex	O
applications	O
:	O
search	B-Application
application	O
,	O
Yandex.Navigator	B-Application
,	O
and	O
in	O
the	O
mobile	O
and	O
desktop	O
versions	O
of	O
Yandex.Browser	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Alice	B-Operating_System
answers	O
either	O
directly	O
in	O
the	O
dialog	O
interface	O
,	O
or	O
shows	O
search	B-Application
results	O
for	O
a	O
query	O
or	O
the	O
desired	O
application	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
addition	O
to	O
answering	O
questions	O
,	O
Alice	B-Operating_System
can	O
solve	O
applied	O
tasks	O
:	O
turn	O
on	O
music	O
,	O
set	O
the	O
alarm	O
clock	O
,	O
call	O
a	O
cab	O
or	O
play	O
games	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Alice	B-Operating_System
is	O
helped	O
by	O
SpeechKit	O
technology	O
to	O
recognize	O
the	O
voice	O
request	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Thanks	O
to	O
it	O
,	O
Alice	B-Operating_System
can	O
give	O
answers	O
to	O
specific	O
questions	O
,	O
and	O
also	O
communicate	O
with	O
the	O
user	O
on	O
abstract	O
topics	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
the	O
most	O
accurate	O
response	O
,	O
Alice	B-Operating_System
takes	O
into	O
account	O
the	O
history	O
of	O
interaction	O
with	O
it	O
,	O
the	O
intonation	O
of	O
the	O
request	O
,	O
previous	O
phrases	O
and	O
geo-positioning	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Initially	O
,	O
the	O
Alice	B-Operating_System
neural	B-Architecture
network	I-Architecture
was	O
trained	O
on	O
an	O
array	O
of	O
texts	O
from	O
the	O
classics	O
of	O
Russian	O
literature	O
,	O
including	O
works	O
by	O
Leo	O
Tolstoy	O
,	O
Fyodor	O
Dostoevsky	O
,	O
and	O
Nikolai	O
Gogol	O
,	O
and	O
then	O
on	O
arrays	O
of	O
live	O
texts	O
from	O
the	O
Internet	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
Mikhail	O
Bilenko	O
,	O
the	O
head	O
of	O
Yandex	O
Machine	O
Learning	O
,	O
told	O
Meduza	O
in	O
an	O
interview	O
,	O
during	O
the	O
early	O
tests	O
impertinence	O
appeared	O
in	O
Alice	B-Operating_System
's	O
communication	O
style	O
,	O
which	O
surprised	O
and	O
amused	O
users	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
To	O
prevent	O
impertinence	O
from	O
turning	O
into	O
rudeness	O
,	O
and	O
to	O
limit	O
Alice	B-Operating_System
's	O
reasoning	O
on	O
topics	O
related	O
to	O
violence	O
,	O
hatred	O
or	O
politics	O
,	O
a	O
system	O
of	O
filters	O
and	O
stop	O
words	O
was	O
implemented	O
in	O
the	O
voice	B-Protocol
assistant	I-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
last	O
stage	O
,	O
the	O
voice-over	O
,	O
is	O
implemented	O
using	O
Text-to-speech	B-Application
technology	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
basis	O
is	O
260	O
thousand	O
words	O
and	O
phrases	O
recorded	O
in	O
the	O
studio	O
,	O
which	O
were	O
then	O
"	O
cut	O
up	O
"	O
into	O
phonemes	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
From	O
this	O
audio	O
database	O
,	O
the	O
neural	B-Architecture
network	I-Architecture
collects	O
the	O
answer	O
,	O
and	O
then	O
the	O
intonation	O
gradients	O
in	O
the	O
finished	O
phrase	O
are	O
smoothed	O
by	O
the	O
neural	B-Architecture
network	I-Architecture
,	O
which	O
brings	O
Alice	B-Operating_System
's	O
speech	O
closer	O
to	O
human	O
speech	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
addition	O
to	O
Yandex	O
services	O
,	O
third-party	O
services	O
can	O
be	O
integrated	O
into	O
Alice	B-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2018	O
,	O
the	O
company	O
expanded	O
the	O
capabilities	O
of	O
Alice	B-Operating_System
through	O
a	O
system	O
of	O
"	O
skills	O
"	O
that	O
use	O
the	O
voice	B-Protocol
assistant	I-Protocol
platform	O
to	O
interact	O
with	O
the	O
user	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
"	O
Skills	O
"	O
are	O
chatbots	O
and	O
other	O
Internet	O
services	O
that	O
are	O
activated	O
by	O
a	O
key	O
phrase	O
and	O
work	O
in	O
the	O
interface	O
of	O
Alice	B-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
first	O
"	O
skill	O
"	O
was	O
announced	O
by	O
Yandex	O
in	O
February	O
2018	O
:	O
the	O
voice	B-Protocol
assistant	I-Protocol
learned	O
to	O
order	O
pizza	O
from	O
Papa	O
John	O
's	O
restaurants	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
October	O
2017	O
,	O
the	O
voice	B-Protocol
assistant	I-Protocol
Alice	B-Operating_System
together	O
with	O
the	O
service	O
Flowwow	O
in	O
closed	O
mode	O
began	O
testing	O
the	O
skill	O
for	O
flower	O
delivery	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Dialogs	O
,	O
designed	O
to	O
publish	O
new	O
"	O
skills	O
"	O
and	O
connect	O
them	O
to	O
Alice	B-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
Thanks	O
to	O
the	O
skills	O
,	O
Alice	B-Operating_System
was	O
trained	O
to	O
work	O
as	O
an	O
announcer	O
:	O
the	O
Yandex	O
voice	B-Protocol
assistant	I-Protocol
took	O
part	O
in	O
the	O
April	O
Total	O
Dictation	O
literacy	O
test	O
and	O
read	O
the	O
dictation	O
at	O
Novosibirsk	O
State	O
University	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
At	O
the	O
end	O
of	O
May	O
at	O
Yet	O
Another	O
Conference	O
2018	O
,	O
Yandex	O
reported	O
that	O
thanks	O
to	O
its	O
skills	O
,	O
Alice	B-Operating_System
has	O
learned	O
to	O
understand	O
what	O
is	O
depicted	O
in	O
a	O
photo	O
and	O
can	O
recognize	O
the	O
make	O
of	O
a	O
car	O
,	O
the	O
breed	O
of	O
cat	O
or	O
dog	O
,	O
an	O
unfamiliar	O
building	O
or	O
monument	O
,	O
and	O
is	O
able	O
to	O
name	O
a	O
celebrity	O
or	O
a	O
work	O
of	O
art	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
products	O
,	O
Alice	B-Operating_System
will	O
find	O
similar	O
options	O
on	O
Yandex.Market	B-Application
or	O
in	O
a	O
Yandex	B-Application
search	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
November	O
2018	O
,	O
Yandex	O
trained	O
Alice	B-Operating_System
to	O
order	O
products	O
on	O
its	O
new	O
Beru	O
marketplace	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
October	O
2018	O
,	O
when	O
Alice	B-Operating_System
turned	O
one	O
year	O
old	O
,	O
Yandex	O
launched	O
the	O
"	O
Alice	B-Operating_System
Prize	O
"	O
program	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
early	O
November	O
,	O
"	O
Yandex	O
"	O
allowed	O
the	O
authors	O
of	O
"	O
skills	O
"	O
to	O
choose	O
the	O
voice	O
of	O
"	O
Alice	B-Operating_System
"	O
to	O
voice	O
messages	O
,	O
adding	O
four	O
new	O
options	O
:	O
Jane	O
,	O
Ermil	O
,	O
Zahara	O
and	O
Ercan	O
Java	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
August	O
2019	O
,	O
Tele2	O
,	O
together	O
with	O
Yandex	O
,	O
launched	O
a	O
skill	O
for	O
Alice	B-Operating_System
that	O
allows	O
subscribers	O
of	O
any	O
operator	O
to	O
find	O
a	O
lost	O
phone	O
at	O
home	O
or	O
in	O
the	O
office	O
for	O
free	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
user	O
can	O
use	O
the	O
voice	B-Application
command	I-Application
"	O
Alice	B-Operating_System
,	O
ask	O
Tele2	O
to	O
find	O
my	O
phone	O
"	O
on	O
any	O
gadget	O
with	O
Alice	B-Operating_System
,	O
and	O
Tele2	O
will	O
call	O
the	O
number	O
tied	O
to	O
the	O
device	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
mid-April	O
2018	O
,	O
Kommersant	O
newspaper	O
published	O
an	O
article	O
about	O
the	O
Yandex.io	O
hardware	O
platform	O
under	O
development	O
,	O
designed	O
to	O
integrate	O
Alice-based	O
voice	B-Application
control	I-Application
into	O
user	O
electronics	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
first	O
hardware	O
development	O
based	O
on	O
Yandex.io	O
with	O
built-in	O
Alice	B-Operating_System
was	O
the	O
Yandex.Station	O
smart	B-Device
speaker	I-Device
,	O
which	O
the	O
company	O
presented	O
in	O
late	O
May	O
at	O
the	O
Yet	O
Another	O
Conference	O
2018	O
in	O
Moscow	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
August	O
2018	O
,	O
wearable	O
electronics	O
manufacturer	O
Elari	O
released	O
the	O
Elari	O
KidPhone	O
3G	O
children	O
's	O
smartwatch	B-Application
with	O
built-in	O
Alice	B-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
watch	O
was	O
the	O
first	O
device	O
with	O
a	O
built-in	O
Yandex	O
voice	B-Protocol
assistant	I-Protocol
released	O
by	O
a	O
third-party	O
company	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
November	O
19	O
,	O
2018	O
,	O
Yandex	O
introduced	O
two	O
budget	O
speakers	O
equipped	O
with	O
Alice	B-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
December	O
5	O
,	O
2018	O
,	O
Yandex	O
introduced	O
its	O
first	O
smartphone	B-Application
,	O
Yandex.Phone	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Alice	B-Operating_System
took	O
center	O
stage	O
in	O
its	O
interface	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
voice	B-Protocol
assistant	I-Protocol
can	O
answer	O
a	O
request	O
even	O
when	O
the	O
phone	O
's	O
screen	O
is	O
locked	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
October	O
9	O
,	O
2019	O
,	O
Yandex	O
introduced	O
its	O
new	O
smart	B-Device
speaker	I-Device
,	O
Station	O
Mini	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
June	O
9	O
,	O
2020	O
,	O
audio	O
equipment	O
manufacturer	O
JBL	O
introduced	O
in	O
Russia	O
two	O
new	O
models	O
of	O
smart	B-Device
speakers	I-Device
with	O
support	O
of	O
the	O
voice	B-Protocol
assistant	I-Protocol
Alice	B-Operating_System
-	O
a	O
stationary	O
model	O
JBL	O
Link	O
Music	O
and	O
a	O
portable	O
JBL	O
Link	O
Portable	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
November	O
25	O
,	O
2020	O
,	O
Yandex	O
introduced	O
its	O
new	O
smart	B-Device
speaker	I-Device
,	O
Yandex.Station	O
Max	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
retained	O
the	O
body	O
of	O
the	O
previous	O
model	O
,	O
received	O
an	O
LED	O
display	O
,	O
three-way	O
sound	O
with	O
a	O
combined	O
power	O
of	O
65	O
watts	O
,	O
and	O
supports	O
video	O
in	O
4k	B-Architecture
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
beta	O
version	O
of	O
Alice	B-Operating_System
was	O
released	O
in	O
May	O
2017	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Later	O
a	O
neural	O
network-based	O
"	O
chit-chat	O
"	O
engine	O
was	O
added	O
allowing	O
Russian-speaking	O
users	O
to	O
have	O
free	O
conversations	O
with	O
Alice	B-Operating_System
about	O
anything	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Speech	B-Application
recognition	I-Application
was	O
found	O
to	O
be	O
particularly	O
challenging	O
for	O
the	O
Russian	O
language	O
due	O
to	O
its	O
grammatical	O
and	O
morphological	O
complexities	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
To	O
handle	O
it	O
,	O
Alice	B-Operating_System
was	O
equipped	O
with	O
Yandex	O
’s	O
SpeechKit	O
,	O
which	O
,	O
according	O
to	O
word	B-General_Concept
error	I-General_Concept
rate	I-General_Concept
,	O
provides	O
the	O
highest	O
accuracy	O
for	O
spoken	O
Russian	O
recognition	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Alice	B-Operating_System
's	O
voice	O
is	O
based	O
on	O
that	O
of	O
the	O
Russian	O
voice	O
actress	O
Tatyana	O
Shitova	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Voice	O
requests	O
to	O
Alice	B-Operating_System
are	O
processed	O
by	O
Yandex	O
cloud	B-Architecture
servers	O
to	O
retain	O
some	O
of	O
them	O
with	O
the	O
aim	O
of	O
expanding	O
Alisa	B-Operating_System
's	O
training	O
set	O
data	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Skill	O
constructors	O
can	O
be	O
used	O
to	O
create	O
skills	O
for	O
Alice	B-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
You	O
can	O
send	O
requests	O
from	O
clients	O
from	O
Alice	B-Operating_System
to	O
amoCRM	O
,	O
Bitrix24	O
,	O
Google	B-Language
Sheets	I-Language
and	O
email	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
of	O
March	O
2019	O
,	O
Alice	B-Operating_System
is	O
available	O
in	O
Turkish	O
in	O
the	O
Yandex.Navigator	B-Application
app	O
under	O
the	O
name	O
Alisa	B-Operating_System
with	O
the	O
stress	O
on	O
the	O
last	O
syllable	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Alisa	B-Operating_System
was	O
voiced	O
by	O
Turkish	O
dubbing	O
actress	O
Selyay	O
Taşdoğen	O
.	O
</s>
