From intelligent translation, to smart speakers, to intelligent onomatopoeia, the imagination space is constantly expanding. Thanks to the progress of artificial intelligence in speech semantics, we have AI translation tools that can translate quickly, and intelligent dialogues have emerged. Smart speaker. With the gradual optimization of artificial speech technology, it will have a wider imagination space in the future.
The British startup “ Sonantic ” has developed a very “real”, “human” “Quality” AI speech technology can transform text into anthropomorphic sound. You can hear from the sound samples posted on the website. According to the sound converted by the text, Southern has the characteristics of tone, intonation, and character of a real person.
Sodium has recently raised 2.3 million euros in financing. It is worth noting that Kevin Lin, co-founder of Twitch, is also an early investor in the company.
Game dubbing is a slow, expensive, and labor-intensive task in game development. It involves actor deployment, studio booking, contracts, scheduling, editing, directing, and a lot of coordination. With the frequent changes in game design, it may take up to 10 years for a video game dominated by narrative clues to be produced. Game developers perform several iterations by default, which often results in budget overruns and delayed game releases. This demand is widespread in the global gaming and entertainment voice industry.
To solve this problem, Sonantic developed artificial intelligence speech technology, claiming to be able to produce “expressive, realistic voice performance” for use by game studios. At present, the company has established R & D cooperation relationships with more than 10 AAA game studios.
Sonantic’s speech technology can shape accurate character types based on gender, personality, accent, tone, and emotional state. Through an API and a user interface tool, Sonatic can let machines synthesize speech to sound like humans, from text to speech, and can edit, modify, and direct sound.
Similar to the “face-cutting” TV series, Southern can also simulate the voice of an actor, use the machine to help the actor to dub, and highlight the actors’ unique performance skills to capture the “deep emotion of the full spectrum” From subtle to exaggerated emotions can be expressed from the voice, which is usually only done by experienced actors. The company believes that this can provide actors with a new way of working and help them increase their income.