Russia releases its very own variation of Amazon Alexa with’ near-human degrees’ of speech acknowledgment – CNBC Posted by | Oct 10, 2017 | Anti Russia Policy | 0 | CNBC Russia launchings its own version of Amazon Alexa with' near-human levels' of speech recognition CNBC Yandex, Russia's largest search engine, said in a press release Tuesday that Alice is the first conversational online deputy, possessing “near-human high levels of speech.” “We wanted Alice to interact with users more like a human, so that users don't …