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Alisa, Don’t Lag!

TalkinRussianat Saint HighLoad++ 2023 · 2023-06-26..06-27· [machine-learning, web-performance]
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Describes efforts to make Yandex’s voice assistant Alice respond faster by improving its response latency. Covers Alice’s system architecture and how that architecture evolved, plus practical measures and optimizations applied to reduce reply time.

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  1. 0:00Introduction
  2. 1:31Alice’s hidden history
  3. 7:37Architecture changes
  4. 9:02Speed optimization start
  5. 12:57End-of-request detector improvements
  6. 15:23Dialog engine optimization
  7. 20:53Response speed UX study
  8. 23:23Optimization results and impact
  9. 27:40Infrastructure and load issues
  10. 31:32Q&A part 1
  11. 38:57Q&A part 2
  12. 46:10Interacting with Alice
  13. 49:24New features and roadmap
  14. 51:59Q&A part 3
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