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The infrastructure of the service is designed bearing high loads in mind to ensure that the system is available and fault-free even if the number of concurrent requests is high. Alice, Yandex Voice assistant, is based on SpeechKit.
The service processes audio and texts in four languages: Russian, English, Ukrainian and Turkish. Yandex SpeechKit composes speech from more than a million individual phonemes, the intonation is set by a neural network trained on numerous examples from real life. HTTP API is provided to exchange data with the service.

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Yandex SpeechKit

Forbes ranked the best employers in 2021.

 
 The compilers have abandoned the numbering in the ranking. Instead, the companies were divided into four groups: "Platinum", "Gold", "Silver" and "Bronze", depending on the points scored. The best in the IT categories are:

<ul>
 <li>Sberbank, Yandex, VK Group (platinum);</li>
 <li>Kaspersky Lab, ABBYY (gold);</li>
 <li>Lanit, Aitarget, Naumen (silver).</li>
</ul>

 
 Top Rated telecoms are:

<ul>
 <li>Beeline, MegaFon, MTS, Rostelecom (gold).</li>
</ul>

 
 There were no IT and telecom employers in the bronze category.

 
 This is Forbes' third rating of the best employers in Russia, which includes 104 companies. This year, not only the benefits package, average wages and working conditions were taken into account, but also the ecological footprint of companies and their impact on society.

 
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Forbes

Sberbank, Yandex and VK Group are the best Employers of 2021 in IT, According to Forbes

Yandex, in partnership with the Ministry for Digital Development, will make it possible to log into Yandex’s services through the Unified Identification and Authentication System (ESIA). Users will also be able to reject this authorization method.

 
 Yandex experts note that ESIA can be useful in services “where additional user identification is required to boost the security of transactions for sellers and buyers.”

 
 The Ministry for Digital Development plans to introduce access through ESIA and into other Internet services used in Russia, but the exact dates and the services are not mentioned.

 
 On Wednesday, November 24, it was also <a href="https://tass.ru/ekonomika/13008039" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">announced</a> that Auto.ru, HeadHunter and Cian launched authorization through ESIA. Avito will also introduce additional account identification through the ESIA. To log in the user has to have a confirmed account on the government services portal.

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CNews

Yandex Plans to Introduce Access to its Services via ESIA

Yandex has joined the international workgroup for the development of Matter, a unified protocol for a smart home.

 
 It is assumed that the developed standard will be used in all countries and take into account their specifics. As a result, smart home systems should become compatible with various services and voice assistants.

 
 According to the head of Yandex's smart devices division Sergey Melnik, "over the past year, the number of users of the company's smart home has more than quadrupled."

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 <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ya.shuster" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Sergey Melnik</a>, the Head of Yandex's Department of Smart Deviсes

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 Apple, Google and Amazon created the protocol at the end of 2019. At the moment, the workgroup includes more than 300 companies. The first devices based on Matter are expected in 2022.

 
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Rusbase

Yandex Joins Unified Smart Home Standard Matter

Yandex has produced the first batch of servers made in Russia. They are based on the fourth generation server developed by the company. Similar computing systems are used in data centers to expand the Yandex.Cloud cloud platform and in Yandex supercomputers.

 
 The new servers are designed to work in large data centers. They are able to withstand temperatures of + 40 ° C. At the same time, they do not need an active cooling system. Now the servers are being tested within the company. The release of similar systems to the market under the Openyard brand is planned for next year. The production line will be located at a joint venture (JV) of Yandex, Lanita, Gigabyte and VTB.

 
 Earlier it was reported that investments in the joint venture would exceed 1 billion rubles. The plant will manufacture servers, storage systems, gateways and smart device components.

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TASS

Yandex Releases the First Batch of its Own Servers

Russia has risen from 11th to 8th place in the list of countries for the aggregate performance of supercomputers, according to the <a href="https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/list/2021/11/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">TOP 500 ranking</a>.

 
 The list includes:

<ul>
 <li>three Yandex's supercomputers,&nbsp;Chervonenkis&nbsp;(ranked 19th),&nbsp;Galushkin&nbsp;(36th) and&nbsp;Lyapunov&nbsp;(40th);&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
 <li>two supercomputers by Sberbank,&nbsp;Christofari Neo&nbsp;(43rd) and&nbsp;Christofari&nbsp;(72nd);&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
 <li>Lomonosov-2 from Moscow State University (241st);</li>
 <li>Grom&nbsp;by MTS (294th).&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
</ul>

 
 The first place in the rating for the second consecutive year is occupied by the Japanese system Fugaku. The second and third places were taken by American supercomputers: Summit and Sierra.

 
 However, China remains the leader in the ranking in terms of the number of such systems with 173 supercomputers, followed by the United States (149) and Japan (32).

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Yandex SpeechKit

Yandex Pay

Lyapunov

Galushkin

Chervonenkis

FindFace Multi

Voice2Med

VOCO

Voice Digger