The website of Europe Plus by means of a neuronet started talking by voices of celebrities

2019: Start of service of scoring of news using Vera Voice

Europe Plus started the updated website. Now news will be sounded using Vera Voice neuronet. The artificial intelligence created by Timur Bekmambetov's team and Robot Vera company will tell users about current events by voices of the DJ of the station Alexey Manuylov and the singer Elena Temnikova. It became known on January 30, 2020.

On the air "Crews At" the director, the producer and the creator of the screenlife film language Timur Bekmambetov personally provided to listeners technology thanks to which it became possible — Vera Voice. In its basis the complex of the neural networks capable to clone a voice — for this purpose are enough to analyze record of pronunciation of the specific person and to compare it with text interpretation.

In studio of a morning show Europe Plus Timur Bekmambetov explained how the service allowing to recreate the speech of any person in Russian works:

Vera Voice studies, listening to remarks of the speaker. "Having digested" the sufficient amount of audioinformation, the algorithm synthesizes any word with exact intonation of speaking. This technology has also a dark side. The biggest problem — to distinguish pronunciation of the living person from a computer bot. Our program can be used, including and to distinguish frauds in this sphere,

For the first time faced such interesting work. In three-four days in breaks between on-the-air directly in Europe Plus studio I wrote about 700 random phrases and short offers on show business that Vera Voice created my audioclone. It was not necessary to play intonations, there was the only requirement — to make the minimum pauses before punctuation marks. Online all information was instantly processed by a neuronet, told Alexey Manuylov

The updated website of Europe Plus allows not only to listen to the air, but also to watch it using video broadcastings from the VISUAL STUDIO: round the clock nine cameras (eight automatic work and one figurative), six HD screens and also the videowall consisting of nine 42-inch panels (data for January 30, 2020)^[1].

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