Yandex: Voice recorder with Alice Pro

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• Speech Recognition (Technology, Market)
• Speech technology: On the path from recognition to understanding

2025: Voice Recorder Performance with "Alice"

Yandex on October 30, 2025 announced a wearable smart device aimed at the corporate sector - a voice recorder with Alice Pro. You can record all the most important things on it, from lectures and meetings to notes aloud for yourself. Alice Pro will decrypt and highlight key theses, and if necessary, extract the necessary facts from the archive of records. For example, she can remind you what terms were agreed at a meeting last Thursday or how much sales amounted to in the second quarter. Voice recorder - Yandex's own development; it will be produced by Yandex Factory.

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The recorder can be carried with you everywhere - on a tape, like a badge, or on a magnetic mount. It is small and lightweight, and comparable in size to a plastic card. The body of the device is made of aluminum. It is easy to control the voice recorder - the switch is used to turn recording on and off, and using the multifunctional button you can mark important points on the recording and give commands to the AI assistant. The recorder is equipped with an indicator - it informs that the recording is in progress.

All memory entries are protected by hardware encryption. The key is stored on the user's smartphone. Even if the voice recorder is lost, the data will be safe - someone who does not have a key will not be able to read it. The battery will last for about 80 hours of recording. If the user forgot to turn off the recording after the meeting, the voice recorder will do it himself.

The voice recorder will be integrated with Yandex 360 services. For example, records can be uploaded to Yandex.Disk, and a summary of meetings can be saved in Yandex Documents. Companies that will use voice recorders in workflows will have the ability to flexibly configure access to records and decryptions - say, make them available only to the owner of the voice recorder, his team or the entire department.

The recorder will be released in the first half of 2026. Yandex will tell you more about the capabilities and characteristics of the device before it goes on sale.