| The name of the base system (platform): | Artificial intelligence (AI, Artificial intelligence, AI) |
| Developers: | Mail.ru Group |
| Last Release Date: | 2020/07/14 |
| Branches: | Internet services |
| Technology: | Speech technologies, Office applications |
Main articles:
- Neuronets (neural networks)
- Smart columns Voice assistants (world market)
- Smart columns Voice assistants (market of Russia)
2020: The announcement of the platform for creation of news videos
On July 14, 2020 the Mail.Ru Group company announced start of virtual leading news. The company developed the platform allowing to create news and reporting videos of studio quality in several clicks. News will be read by the virtual announcer, and video can supplement with images, music, credits and even to deliver the link.
According to the company to create video, it is enough to load the text of news into a system — and the virtual leader will read it. Announcers look and talk as living people: when reading news they it is realistic reproduce a mimicry, emotionally react and place semantic accents. The appearance of the announcer is selected by the user: in Mail.ru created several models of digital leaders for which real people served as prototypes. Also users will be able to change design of studio — for example, to register it in corporate flowers of the edition.
The platform will be useful to creation of video as large editions which actively experiment with technologies, and to niche media.
 | For July, 2020 video watching grows. According to forecasts, by 2022 79% of all Internet traffic in Russia is necessary on online video. But production of video topics — difficult and expensive process which the majority of media resources are not able to afford. In the editor from Watch Mail.ru it is possible to create news and reporting videos in high quality free of charge. |  |
Video from professional media platforms which will be authorized by the editorial office Watch Mail.ru, will be able to get to the recommendatory system of service and to have an opportunity in addition to monetize the content.
During creation of virtual leading Mail.ru used own developments in the field of artificial intelligence. The team of the voice assistant Marusya worked on speech synthesis on the basis of neural networks. The voice assistant from Mail.ru is engaged in scoring of news long ago — this skill appeared at Marusya one of the first. Besides, on the project of News Mail.ru it is possible to ask Marusya to tell information picture of day. Marusya is capable to reproduce any volume of the text, separating semantic segments and saving the connectivity of the narration. The speech engine of Marusya is configured so that to correspond on timber accents to real human pronunciation. Therefore the speech of the digital announcer sounds most naturally.
The video image is synchronized with the speech in real time. The systems of computer vision Vision from Mail.ru studied at real prototypes and videos precisely to reproduce lip movement and a look. Thanks to deep training, neural networks allow announcers to broadcast any speech with a suitable mimicry and emotionality.
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