Review on Smart speaker Yandex Station Light with Alice, beige cappuccino, 5W by Micha Grt ᠌

Name: Smart speaker Yandex Station Light with Alice, beige cappuccino, 5W
Item: Smart speaker Yandex Station Light with Alice, beige cappuccino, 5W
Rating: 5

June 05, 2023

Great product, best quality.

Great addition to Station Max or second generation. The main station is in the living room, Light - in the bedroom. In principle, Light can also be used as a completely independent station - the functionality with older models is almost identical (with the exception of the volume / sound quality, video capabilities of the Max station, and the visualization of everything on the LED screen).

For the current price, it's a great buy. For families with children, it can become one of the central and most commonly used devices in the apartment.

Pros

A very useful gadget in the presence of smart home devices - switches in all rooms have become almost useless. Scripts are a very handy thing. Lots of options/skills as a standalone device. Alarms, reminders, listening to news and music, and many more useful tools. Quite a good sound (considering the size and power of the speaker, as well as the cost of the speaker). A decent margin of volume, while the sound does not wheeze. Microphones, of course, are weaker than in Station Max (which hears a very quiet whisper from 5-10 meters away and understands everything), but still at a good level. You don't have to shout into the speaker, voice control is comfortable.

Cons

There are no specific shortcomings or any problems affecting the operation of the station. The shortcomings so far, rather, are in Alice herself, and not in the stations (although, in general, progress over the past few years has been enormous). For example, you cannot set reminders for the same time on certain days of the week (recurring). That is, each reminder must be spoken separately, indicating the time and day of the week. A couple of times it was not possible to turn off the alarm clock in the morning, Alice simply did not understand the command and continued to play the alarm melody further (to be fair, I’ll admit that this happened only twice in a month of work). Occasionally confuses voices (again, literally 1-2 times a month)