Yandex has taught "Alice" to understand and speak in the Kazakh language

The voice assistant "Alice" in the mobile browser of "Yandex" has started to understand and speak Kazakh. This is the first step in developing the virtual assistant in the region.

Alice will help find answers to questions of interest, provide weather information, or engage in simple conversation. Any user can talk to her in Kazakh — just open the mobile "Yandex Browser", updated to the latest version, click on the "Alice" icon, and use the "Change Language" button.

To enable "Alice" to understand requests and provide high-quality responses in Kazakh, she was trained on a large volume of data, including thousands of manually translated dialogues and hundreds of hours of audio recordings. These were prepared with the help of native speakers and editors. The virtual assistant in Kazakh is available in Kazakhstan.

Source: digitalbusiness.kz