Yandex.Messenger

2020: Yandex.Messenger launch

On April 22, 2020, the company Yandex"" announced the launch of a new service designed to communicate users by sending text messages, as well as through audio and. video conference We are talking about the Yandex.Messenger application, which is available for mobile operating systems Android and. iOS

Also, the service can be launched on a computer in Yandex.Browser and on the yandex.ru page without installing a separate program. Yandex attributed the following to the other main features of its product:

On April 22, 2020, Yandex launched a competitor WhatsApp

• Personal messages and chats that can be "collected in just a minute";
• Voice messages that themselves turn into text using the SpeechKit speech recognition technology developed in Yandex;
• News and information channels of popular media, Yandex channels, Kinopoisk and user channels.
• Quick reactions and stickers.

Yandex clarified that anyone can start the channel. The main difference from a similar function in Telegram is that each entry can be reacted in the form of emoji. Also in the service will be available "official information about the coronavirus." In addition, all Yandex users have been added to the new messenger. It is enough to allow access to contacts.

It is noted that Yandex.Messenger replaced the Yandex.Chat service, where users can contact stores on Yandex. Market "or communicate with neighborhood neighbors.

Now, on all Yandex services, chats have become a messenger, the company explained. The company does not disclose the audience of the Yandex.Chat service.

On all Yandex services where users communicated, the platform will remain, but will be enriched with the new capabilities of Messenger, the company said.^[1]

Yandex has been testing the messenger since 2017, then it was called Yamb. 

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