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The largest bank in our country showed an unusual video featuring TV presenter named Elena. By including the following video recording, you can see a pretty woman voicing news of domestic developments in the field of robotics. Not less, if you carefully listen to the announcer, it becomes clear that something is wrong with her. Her voice sounds too inexpressive and the behavior of this lady seems not natural enough.
The answer is simple: Elena is really not a living person, and a program consisting of a three-dimensional virtual model and speech synthesizer. It loads the text that “holographic” presenter voices on the screen, trying to imitate facial expressions of a woman. It turns out so far not perfect, what to say. On the the still image of the announcer seems to be quite realistic, however on the video clearly shows that the movements of her lips do not coincide with the voice, and Elena’s eyes look too motionless.
However, Elena is a full-fledged artificial intelligence on based on a self-learning artificial neural network that simulates human brain. This means that over time, the program will improve yourself by pulling up your skills and all More realistic depicting a woman. If the virtual host is now can only raise eyebrows, shake his head and occasionally blink, then in the future she will probably be able to demonstrate the full range human emotions necessary for professional voice acting news. Including gesticulate, “breathe” and sometimes even stammer.
It is believed that Elena and similar programs will someday allow fully automate the work of announcers. By the way, in China today artificial intelligence is also being introduced to reduce expenses of television companies for the maintenance of such employees. So far, all these innovations, both in Russia and in China, in their the results do not shine, but experts predict that with technology will evolve over time, and hologram TV hosts indistinguishable from living people.
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