人工智能主播震驚外媒！還能24小時不停工作

China's state press agency has unveiled a virtual newsreader designed to deliver headlines 24 hours a day.

中國國家新聞機構推出了虛擬的新聞播報員，一天24小時都能播送新聞。

Xinhua's “artificial intelligence news anchor” is a lifelike digitised reporter which can read out text by mimicking the image and voice of a real human presenter.

新華社的這款“AI合成主播”是真人合成的記者，通過模仿真人主持人的形象和聲音來念新聞。

The agency claims the virtual presenter – a realistic-looking man, sharply dressed in a suit – “can read texts as naturally as a professional news anchor”.

新華社稱這款虛擬主播，形象逼真，穿着得體的西裝“，能夠和專業的新聞主播一樣，非常自然的播報新聞”。

However, the AI newsreader's debut report on Thursday revealed a robotic voice and awkward delivery.

不過，在週四的AI主播首秀上，播報的聲音還是很機械，聽起來並不自然。

“Hello, you are watching English news programme. I'm AI anchor in Beijing,” the presenter said at the beginning of its first English-language broadcast.

“大家好，您正在收看的是英語新聞頻道。我是AI主播，在北京爲你播報。”在英語節目播報開始時主持人這樣說道。

In an introductory video, it said: “I will work tirelessly to keep you informed as texts will be typed into my system uninterrupted.”

在介紹視頻中，他說；“新聞將會持續不斷的進入我的系統，我也會不知疲倦地向大家播報新聞。”

The technology synthesises the human presenter's speech, lip movements and facial expressions. It was developed jointly by Xinhua and Chinese search engine Sogou.

這項技術合成了真人主播的播報，脣部動作，面部表情。它是由新華社和搜狗引擎共同開發完成。

（翻譯：林潯鷗）