Examples of voice commands

Note

If you enable syncing, Alice can find the information you need more easily and answer questions by accessing your data on the Yandex server and your search history on all your devices.

Request or command

Examples

Overview

Get the answer to a simple question

43 times 512.
 
What is the weight of a cloud?
 
Who was Albert Einstein?
 
How many calories are there in an apple?

Find out the time, date, and day of the week

What time is it?
 
What is the date today?
 
What time is it in New York?
 
What day of the week will October 6th be?

News and weather

Find out the weather forecast

Is it warm in Sochi now?
 
What's the weather like today?
 
What will the weather be like this weekend?
 
Tell me the weather forecast for two weeks.

Find out the news

Tell me the news from [name of the media outlet’s website].
 
Tell me the news from [media outlet name].

Find out the exchange rate

What is the dollar exchange rate?
 
How many rubles is 254 euros? How much does the yen cost today?
 
I need to buy 200 Turkish liras, how much is that in rubles at the exchange rate of the Central Bank?

Places and routes

Determine your location and set your route

Where am I?
 
How far am I from home? How do I get to the Moscow Museum?
 
How long does it take to get to work on the bus?
 
To let Alice know where your home or work is, you need to sign in to Yandex and mark these places in Yandex ID, on Yandex Maps, or in Yandex Navigator.

Find out the traffic situation

What is traffic like now?
 
What are the roads like? What is the traffic situation?
 
What's the traffic congestion level in Dmitrov?

Find places nearby

Where is there a pool nearby?
 
Where can I see a movie?
 
Find a cafe nearby. Pharmacies, 15 Malysheva street.

Call a taxi

Order a taxi to work.
 
Order a taxi home. Call a taxi to Belorussky train station tomorrow at 8:00.
 
Order a taxi from 5, Malaya Polyanka to Manezhnaya Square. Upon recognizing the command, Alice opens the Yandex Taxi app and inserts the address you specified.
 
If necessary (for example, if your house is not marked on Yandex Maps), Alice clarifies the address.
 
If the Yandex Taxi app isn't installed on your smartphone/tablet, Alice opens the mobile version of Yandex.Taxi in the browser.

Searching the web

Find information on the internet

Open a recipe for risotto with porcini mushrooms.
 
Where can I buy a cheap dishwashing machine?
 
Find a biography of Niels Bohr.
 
What to feed a chinchilla?

Open a website

VK.
 
Open the Public Services website.
 
Open Yandex.
 
Open a website with funny cats.

Find out what's in the photo

Take a photo.
 
Take a picture.
 
What's in the picture?
 
Alice understands your command and opens the tablet camera. The image is sent to Alice's dialog, and she tries to recognize what you photographed.

Music

Turn on music (Alice will open the track you want to hear in Yandex Music)

Let's listen to some good music.
 
Play the “Roads” album.
 
I want to listen to The Beatles.
 
Turn on a yoga playlist.

Turn on the radio

Turn on the Rock radio station.
 
Play jazz music. Turn on some classical music.
 
What radio stations do you have?
 
If you don't name a radio station, Alice will turn on the one that you've already listened to on Yandex.Radio.

Identify the track (Alice can hear the music playing nearby through the tablet microphone)

What's playing?
 
What is this music?
 
Identify the track. Alice recognizes your command and goes into listening mode. If she is able to identify the track, she gives you its name, author, and a link to the track in Yandex Music.

Device management

Launching an app

Open Instagram.
 
Launch Yandex.
 
Launch VK.
 
Open the “Angry Birds” game.

Start the timer

Start the timer, please.
 
Set the timer for 10 minutes.
 
Count one and a half minutes.
 
Set the timer for 1 minute and 30 seconds.

Help with tasks

Set the alarm

Set the alarm clock at 5 in the morning on weekdays.
 
Wake me up tomorrow at 6. Wake me up in 40 minutes.
 
Turn off all alarms for tomorrow.

Remind you about important things (Alice remembers what needs to be done and when, so she'll remind you at the specified time)

Set a task to call Mom at ten today.
 
Put the iron on my to-do list for tomorrow. Remind me to buy groceries on Sunday.
 
Show me my tasks.

Games and entertainment

Play with Alice

Let's play the city game.
 
Tell me about a day in history. Let’s play “True or False”.
 
Let's play a word game.
 
To exit the game, say “Enough”, “Stop”, “Go back”, or “Exit”.

Listen to a tale

Turn on the tale about Cinderella.
 
Tell me a fairy tale.
 
Tell me a Grimm's fairy tale.
 
Tell me a Russian folk tale.

Just chat

What's up, Alice?
 
What music do you like?
 
Who created you?
 
Tell me a joke.

Write text

Create a story about the friendship between a parrot and a turtle.
 
A pizza recipe that absolutely everyone will love.
 
How can I spend the weekend when the weather is bad?
 
Create a social media post in the style of Russian folk tales.
 
To launch the skill, say “Alice, let’s come up with something”.
 
To exit, say “Alice, stop”.

Draw an image

An orange cat in a spacesuit against the backdrop of space

A medieval city in the mountains

Giraffes and zebras in the savannah

Fireworks over the Eiffel Tower

Note

To launch the skill, say “Alice, let’s draw”.

Note

You cannot add new commands to the program.Let us know about the commands you want Alice to understand using the form. We will be gradually expanding the list of commands in order of relevance.

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