Mail.ru Group introduced a service for creating virtual hosts – review

It seems that technology has finally reached a level that allows the creation of virtual presenters on a massive scale. Service “See Mail.ruIntroduced a free platform for creating such digital avatars.

Thus, now anyone can create a news video using images, music, captions and links. You can choose the appearance of the speaker, background and so on. Then download the text to be read.

It is argued that the speech and facial expressions of the presenters are realistic. Digital announcers can reproduce emotions and accents. The proprietary AI manages everything, based on the work of the voice assistant Maroussia (the same team worked on the project) and the Vision group’s computer vision system.

According to Mail.ru Group, the use of the platform allows you to quickly release stories on the air, save on studios and content production. At the same time, we note that four versions of the presenters and several backgrounds are already available.

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