Yandex announced the launch of a new feature for the Alice voice assistant. Thus "Alice" learned
Now in the "Reader" section of the mobile applicationYandex can not only read, but also listen to books. To do this, just say: "Alice, open the Reader", select the work and click on the headphone icon.
If you want to stop reading a book, then,when you restart it, "Alice" will start playing it from where it left off. The user can choose a suitable reading speed and even a voice acting option - in addition to the standard voice of "Alice", there is a version with a male voice.
Developers teach speech synthesis technology onexamples of speech of professional announcers to make the reading of "Alice" sound more natural, including the correct placement of stress, pauses in the right places and the choice of correct intonations.
Source: Yandex.Reader