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“Yandex” works over creation of rival smart speakers Apple HomePod

Yandex is developing a competitor to Apple’s HomePod and Amazon Echo home assistant with a voice interface. About this “Vedomosti” citing informed sources close to the company.

“Yandex” has been developing “smart” speakers, similar to domestic assistants HomePod Apple, Amazon Echo and Google Home. Sources reported that the company already has a prototype of such a device under the working title Аrtificial Intelligence speaker.

“We are confident that the voice interface is the future, we have accumulated the necessary technologies: speech recognition and text-to-speech, advanced dialog system, artificial intelligence”, the source said, without specifying details of the project.

Release home assistant appeared at “Yandex” more than a year ago. One team developed a voice interface and discuss whether the company to produce a column on their own or enter into partnerships with manufacturers of existing devices.

What functions can have smart column, is still unknown. If the device will play music from “Yandex.Music”, then this change will need to notify the copyright holders — in “Yandex” have not done.

Experts believe that Yandex is seeking to enter the Russian market “smart” columns, until it was occupied by Apple and Google, not to lose a large market, as it happened with smartphones and the mobile Internet.

There is an assumption that Yandex will use in column voice assistant “Alice” that appeared in the test the mobile app in may. The company plans to complete testing in 2017.

“Smart” home helpers already have Google and Amazon, and at the end of the year should see a column from Apple — HomePod. None of the already released devices can’t communicate with the user in Russian language and not officially sold on the Russian market.

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