AI虛擬主播“果果”
“果果”的原型、人民日報社主持人果欣禹
“讀者朋友們，早安！今天是2019年6月20日，星期四。人民智播報虛擬播報員果果為您播報！”最近，在“人民智播報”微信公號上，每天早上7時，人民日報AI（人工智能）虛擬主播“果果”都准時“上崗”，流利地向觀眾播報國內外熱點事件。
“Good morning, readers' friends! Today is Thursday, 20 June 2019. People's wisdom reports the fruit of the virtual reporter!” Recently, at 7 a.m., on the "People's Intelligence" micro-letter, the People's Daily A.I. (A.I.P.) virtual anchor, “The fruit” is on his way to show the viewers the hot spots both inside and outside the country.
AI虛擬主播近年來一直廣受關注。通過採集真人主播的聲音和圖像並使用人工智能技術合成制作出的虛擬主播，僅需輸入文字版新聞，就可以自動生成多語種語音和配套表情，合成新聞播報視頻。
AI's virtual anchor has been receiving much attention in recent years. Virtual anchors, made through the collection of live audio and images and the use of synthetic artificial intelligence techniques, can automatically generate multilingual voices and accompanying expressions and synthesize news videos by simply entering text-based news.
從央視以主持人康輝為原型制作的“康曉輝”，到人民日報數字傳播與科大訊飛共同打造的虛擬女主播“果果”，越來越多人工智能走上新聞播報台，在融媒體時代下利用前沿科技生產優質內容，使新聞播報既快速又准確，還能帶給觀眾新奇的觀看體驗。
From “King Qing Qiao”, which is based on the prototype of the moderator, to a virtual women's anchor, the fruit of the People's Daily's Digital Dissemination and Big News, more and more artificial intelligence is coming to the news channel, using cutting-edge technology to produce good content in the media era, so that newscasts can be quick and accurate and can bring new insights to viewers.
虛擬主播是如何誕生的？虛擬主播的日常生活又是怎樣進行的？近日，本報探訪了人民日報社首位虛擬主播“果果”和她背后的團隊，聽他們講述“果果”的故事。
How was the virtual anchor born? How was the daily life of the virtual anchor? Recently, the newspaper visited the first virtual anchor of the People's Daily and her team behind it, listening to their stories about the fruit.
實現多語言播報
Realising Multilingual Broadcasting
“大家好，我是人民日報AI虛擬主播果果！”今年5月25日，在貴州省貴陽市舉辦的2019國際大數據產業博覽會上，一位特殊主播的亮相“引燃”全場。身穿鮮艷的紅色西裝、面帶端庄大氣的微笑，屏幕上的“果果”清晰流利地用普通話、廣東話、英語和多種其他語言向在場觀眾進行播報示范。“感覺科技太厲害了，大家都在情不自禁地鼓掌。”回憶起當天現場的狀況，“果果”的原型、人民日報社主持人果欣禹激動地說。
“Hello, I am the People's Daily, AI's virtual anchor!” On May 25, this year, at the 2019 International Digital Fair in Guiyang City, Guiyang Province, a special anchor was set to “flame” the whole scene. In a red suit, with a big smile on his face, the “fruit” on the screen was clearly aired to the audience in Mandarin, Guangdong, English and a variety of other languages. “It feels so good that everyone applauds.
6月的一個下午，筆者在人民日報社的演播廳外見到了果欣禹。“我是人民日報第一個與AI技術結合的人，想想還挺神奇的。”提到參與制作虛擬主播時的種種細節，她自己也覺得很新鮮。
In the afternoon of June, I saw Go Xinjun outside the studio of the People's Daily newspaper. “I'm the first person in the People's Daily newspaper to associate with AI technology, and it's amazing to think about it.” She also feels new about the details of participating in the production of the virtual anchor.
果欣禹告訴筆者，科大訊飛的技術人員利用一上午的時間，採集了她幾個小時的人像、音頻素材，她坦言，“還挺累的，過半個小時就要歇一下。”她回憶道。
Goebbels told me that the technocrats who used the morning to collect her images and audio material for hours, and she said, "It's a bit tired, and they're gonna take a break in half an hour." She remembered.
錄制當天，她先后穿了紅色、藍色兩套西裝。為了方便后期“果果”人像的生成，頭發還得梳得一絲不亂。果欣禹還說，那天讀的稿子不同尋常，類似於“今天”“鳥”“樹葉”“綠”等各種類型的文本。“當時讀的時候還覺得很復雜，但是技術老師讓我保持主播播報狀態，讀對讀准。”
On that day, she wore two red and blue suits. To make it easier for the later generation of the "fruit" portraits, her hair had to be combing off. The Goebbels also said that the text read on that day was unusual, similar to the text of the "Today" bird, "Green" and other types of text. "It was complicated when I read it, but the technologist asked me to keep the anchoring status and read it correctly."
等到“果果”正式亮相后，果欣禹的家人和朋友都覺得很像她。“不過她沒有我標志性的大笑，比我端庄多了。” 果欣禹調侃說。
When the fruit comes to light, the family and friends feel like her. "But she doesn't laugh like me, and she's much more decent than me."
這一有趣的體驗背后，有著科大訊飛的多個技術“法寶”加持。科大訊飛項目經理邵俞鵬接受本報採訪時介紹說，多語種虛擬主播的制作利用了訊飛的語音合成、人臉識別、人臉建模、圖像合成、機器翻譯等多項人工智能技術。目前，虛擬主播可以實現多語言的新聞自動播報，且支持文本到視頻的自動輸出，便捷地實現了從文本到視頻的轉換。
Underlying this interesting experience are a number of techno-moistures that have been carried out by the science majors. In an interview with this newspaper, the director of the science majors reported that the production of multi-language virtuals has been made using a variety of artificial intelligence techniques such as voice synthesis, human face recognition, human face modelling, image synthesis, machine translation, etc. So far, virtual anchors have been able to self-initiate news in many languages and have supported text-to-video self-inputs, and have quickly realized the transformation from text to video.
除了人民日報外，在過去的一年多裡，央視也不斷地推出虛擬主播，它們中很多都是基於家喻戶曉的“熟臉”進行制作的。
In addition to the People's Daily, during the past year or so, virtual anchors, many of which have been produced on the basis of well-known “faces”.
2018年5月2日，央視虛擬主持人“康曉輝”亮相屏幕，與央視記者江凱共同主持《直播長江》安徽篇。“粉紅牆上畫鳳凰，鳳凰畫在粉紅牆。”節目期間，“康曉輝”還用康輝老師的聲音說了這樣一段輕快的繞口令，向觀眾展示了自己高超的“專業實力”。
On May 2, 2018, Kan Xiaohui, the virtual host of the show, co-chaired with Yang Qi, the journalist Jiang Qi, co-sponsored the "Showing the Yangtze's Insignia". "Draw the beryllium on the pink wall, the beryllium on the pink wall." In the course of the show, Qiao Xiao Xiao also used the sound of Mr. Kang's e-mail to say such a light word to show the audience that he was “specially proficient”.
據了解，虛擬主持人“康曉輝”的外型復制央視主持人康輝，通過相芯科技的虛擬形象生成技術創建，並通過虛擬形象驅動技術實現。聲音則是通過科大訊飛旗下的訊飛智聲平台的AI語音合成技術對康輝聲音進行合成模擬而成的。
It is understood that the virtual host, Qing Xiaohui’s external remodeller, Qing Xiang Xiang, has created technology through the virtual image of the camera technology, and has made it possible through the virtual image-driven technology. The sound is made possible by the synthesis of the sound from the AI audio-synthesis platform under the CQ flag.
是一款文化產品
is a cultural product
人民日報數字傳播董事長徐濤對筆者說，“‘果果’不是一個噱頭，我們希望它是一個能夠真正用得上的文化產品。”
The Chairman of the People's Daily Digital Broadcaster, Xu Jian, said to me, “The fruit is not an apocalypse, and we want it to be a cultural product that can really be used”.
徐濤向我們展示了“果果”日常是如何“工作”的：隻見他在控制系統中輸入了一篇新聞稿，5分鐘后，一段“果果”的新聞播報視頻就由人工智能系統自動生成了。徐濤介紹說，“果果”的運營團隊每晚將當天的新聞事件集萃文稿用這種方式生成5分鐘左右的視頻，並在微信公眾平台定時發送，讓“果果”能每天准時和觀眾見面。
Xu showed us how fruit is “work” every day: just seeing him enter a news article into the control system, five minutes later, a newscast on fruit was automatically generated by an artificial intelligence system. Xu explained that the fruit team would produce a news collection of news events every night in that way for about five minutes, and send it to the micro-public platform so that the fruit could meet with the audience every day.
不僅在新聞節目中，虛擬主播也“走”上了網絡春晚的舞台。在2019年的網絡春晚中，央視主持人朱迅、高博、龍洋、撒貝寧的孿生人工智能主持人“朱小迅”、“高小博”、“龍小洋”和“小小撒”一一亮相。節目串場中，當名嘴撒貝寧掏出台本，准備宣布下一環節時，“小小撒”搶先一步，說出了台詞，惹得一旁撒貝寧開玩笑地問，“能讓我說一句嗎？”
Not only in the news show, virtual anchors “go” onto the online spring night stage. In 2019, on the evening of the Internet, the hosts Jojo, Goborg, Ryuyang, Sabine's bio-intelligence host, Chu Xiaojin, Ko Xiaobo, Yong Xiaoyang, and Xiaoza, made a scene. "Can I say something?"
場景將更多元
scenes will have more dollars
5月25日，果欣禹在貴陽國際大數據產業博覽會上和觀眾一同見証了“果果”的“誕生”。她告訴筆者，之前見到的預演的“果果”聲音和畫面還沒有完全對位，因此她當時特別緊張，手心都是汗。而當“果果”順利亮相、並能用多國語言自信地播報新聞時，果欣禹感慨道，她仿佛看到了一個優秀版的自己。
On May 25, she witnessed the “birth” of the fruit with the audience at the Yooyang International Big Data Fair. She told me that the sound and image of the fruit that she had seen earlier had not yet been fully matched, so she was particularly nervous and sweaty.
“現在常常有人在外面認出我，看來我的‘同胞妹妹’比較出名。”不過，她也承認，現在的“果果”仍然有表情不夠豐富、聲音缺乏感情等問題，“希望隨著技術革新，她能越來越好，說不定有一天，我們倆能一塊主持節目。”
“Now I'm often recognized outside, and it seems to me that my `compatriot sister' is more famous.” She also admits, however, that the present `fruits' are still not as rich as their expressions and voice is less emotional, and she hopes that, with technological innovation, she will be better off, and maybe one day we'll both be able to host the show together.”
而徐濤並不滿足於此，他告訴筆者，未來的“果果”不僅要更加逼真，還要有更多的突破。“現在是第一代，以后我們還要打造站立播報新聞的虛擬主播形象，會有更多手勢和動作。”
And Xu Jian is not satisfied with this, and he tells me that the future “results” must not only be more realistic, but also more breakthroughs. “It is now the first generation, and then we must build a virtual anchor image of the news, and there will be more gestures and moves.”
在徐濤看來，5G時代的來臨讓研發虛擬主播變得十分必要，“我們實際上在為全國的新聞行業提供一個能夠增強生產效率的工具。”他解釋說，在5G時代，隨著網絡運行速度的大大提升，信息高速公路越來越寬，因此需要更多的優質內容。人工智能技術的運用節省了視頻新聞制作所需的時間和成本，將極大地助力未來新聞行業的內容生產。
In Xu’s view, the advent of the 5G era made it necessary to develop virtual anchors, “we are actually providing the nation’s press industry with a tool that can increase productivity.” He explained that, in the 5G era, the information superhighway is becoming more extensive and requires more quality content. The use of artificial intelligence technology saves the time and cost of video news production and helps the future production of content in the news industry.
徐濤展望，“在未來，虛擬主播的使用場景將更多元化，在地鐵、機場等公共設施上的視頻信息播報中，也可能會有越來越多虛擬主播的身影。”
Xu Dynasty, “In the future, the use of virtual anchors will be more diversified, and more and more virtual anchors may be present in video reports on public facilities such as subways, airports, etc.”.
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