There's been a massive outage in Alice in Russia. Belarusians are also complaining.
A major outage occurred in the operation of Yandex services, including the Alice smart speakers. According to monitoring services, the problems affected a significant portion of the audience. The main difficulties faced by users were service failure, no connection, and the inability to get any answers from the assistant.
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Most complaints came from owners of Android devices (53.1%). iOS accounted for 39.8% of appeals, and Windows users accounted for another 6%.
Apparently, the failures of "Alice" also affected Belarusian users. A reader of the "Onliner" publication said that two existing smart speakers in her apartment "went crazy". And the mobile program displays a white screen on both iOS and Android.
"Alice" is a virtual voice assistant from "Yandex". The system has a built-in artificial intelligence that recognizes natural speech, imitates a live dialogue and gives answers to user questions. You can communicate with "Alice" both through special media (smart speakers - "stations") and on the Internet.