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Zhang Guorong "revived" the voice of "brother" through big data phonetic spelling

  

"It's been 13 years, so long, so hard for you..." This "letter from heaven" from the late star Leslie Cheung touched the fans. Before the opening of Leslie Cheung's latest film "Fate", which was shown on the evening of March 29, this voice was released for the first time, enabling fans present to interact with their idols.

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It is reported that this voice response is the voice of Leslie Cheung synthesized by Baidu's latest "emotional voice synthesis technology" through the dual collection of Leslie Cheung's original voice and interview data throughout the network through machine and manual.

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Its sound quality comes entirely from Leslie Cheung, but its content can not be found in any of Leslie Cheung's voice records. It comes from a "letter from heaven" written according to Leslie Cheung's speech style.

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The content of this synthesis is pronounced in Mandarin. Baidu said that the Cantonese emotional speech synthesis technology is also in development, because there are many Cantonese audio language materials left in that year, the expected effect will be better than Mandarin.