You are a black technology boss, you didn't say it sooner!

With the end of this trip to the United States, the special effects plug-ins are open to major companies to use, and AI pull-up and cloud rendering have received large orders, and the volcano that is about to move seems to have quieted down again.

The foreign companies were appeased. Although Lou Qingyan didn't tell them the essence of the assembly line animation, this group of people were all extremely smart, and they bought the employees of the Deep Space Gazing America Department. Sooner or later, they would always be able to master this model.

As a result, people discovered that the major film and television companies suddenly fell into a crazy competition for their works.

Everyone has obtained the secret of ten thousand times return, but who is the creator of the second myth?

If nothing else, countless animated films will be released together in the next period of time.But the entire market is so big, and the back row will obviously be exhausted.

The sooner it is released, the more money you can make.

Therefore, the major film and television companies started to compete for the schedule at the same time!

Deep Space Gaze originally wanted to do the same thing, Jason was already discussing the establishment of the "Voyage Around the Universe 2" project, but Lou Qingyan stopped him.

Lou Qingyan said: "If they rob, let them rob. What does it have to do with us?"

At first glance, it sounded like a babble, like "You guys just fight, I'm only in charge of watching the show".

However, Jason knew that he must have other plans in mind.

"What about our work during this time?"

After "Voyage Around the Universe" was released, because the new project was not confirmed for a long time, he asked the company to outsource the special effects. With the powerful functions of the plug-in, some special effects processing has become quite simple.

"The company is divided into an animation group and a special effects group. Let Tom lead the animation group to make new animations, and Jerry leads the special effects group to explore the application of plug-ins in the field of special effects."

Jason was surprised: "You are finally willing to let Tom do animation."

"He's been begging me for three months, and I'm getting annoyed, anyway, animation doesn't cost money."

"Then let him host "Voyage 2"?" Although Voyage 2 seems to need an experienced director, the script of this series is written by Tom, and AI pulls the film to control the rhythm. Jason believes that Tom He is also fully capable of being a director.

But Lou Qingyan said: "No, Transit 2 will not be approved for the time being, let Tom toss it out by himself, as long as he doesn't ruin Transit 2, he can do whatever he likes."

Jason was incredulous: "What did you say? Do you think Tom will be able to do the Circumnavigation 2 without success?"

Lou Qingyan didn't explain anymore.

Jason really didn't understand why, Lou Qingyan knew how much Tom loved animation, but he was not allowed to participate in the first work.Now that Global Voyage 1 has been a big success, animation production costs have come down, even if it's a trial run, it won't be a problem, but Lou Qingyan still delayed for more than three months before agreeing to let him take the lead in a work.

Is it because he doesn't recognize Tom's ability, or does he simply hate Tom?

Even Tom felt that Lou Qingyan must have something against him.

On the night of returning to China, Lou Qingyan left Jiang Fu's house and went directly to the airport, where he met Tom who was clenching his fists and bulging his cheeks.

The latter jumped up immediately when he saw him: "The plane is about to take off, why are you so late?"

"Is it late?" Lou Qingyan saw that the time was right, and the boarding check had just started.

So, no matter what Tom came to see him off on purpose, he didn't have time to say it.

Watching the back of Lou Qingyan entering the boarding gate, Tom suddenly shouted: "I will prove it to you! I will!"

"Let me tell you, fi...lou, I will never be discouraged, I will never never! No matter how late the opportunity comes, as long as I can get it, success belongs to me!"

Lou Qingyan turned around and smiled at him.

"Then let's go."

Hollywood animators have begun to seize the schedule, and the animation production of major domestic companies is also in full swing.

They're a little slower to make.

On the one hand, domestic animators do not have AI pull-ups, lack the backing of data analysis, and worry and think about the works take up a lot of time, even if they think about it, they can’t get up quickly.

On the other hand, there is no need to compete for schedules.When the industry alliance was first established, it was agreed that after all the works are completed, they will be brought to the summit for exhibition. The performance of the exhibition hall will be selected first, and all films will be staggered to avoid crowding.So they don't fight for speed, but for quality.

From this point of view, in terms of the output speed of works, China seems to be far behind foreign countries.But Lou Qingyan was not in a hurry, and still followed his own pace step by step.

The big movies of various companies are still brewing, China Good Animation has just started the first round of script selection stage, and the summit is also in preparation.It will take at least several months until these processes are completed.

Regarding the animation industry, Lou Qingyan has already completed all preparations and is only waiting for a final feedback.

Other projects at the company were on the agenda.

The speech synthesis software was finally fully developed. On this day, Tang Xiaoyu and Gu Han came to report to him with the finished project.

The two entered several dialogues and written narrations respectively, and the system pronounced them in different voices. From lolita to uncle, each voice is very realistic, especially the dialogue, which is as natural as ordinary chatting.

"This naturalness is very good," Lou Qingyan first affirmed, "It's impossible to tell that it's fake from the outside?"

"I can't hear it at all. I have done countless tests," Tang Xiaoyu said. "In the end, I couldn't even find the system bug."

"But that's just not audible," Gu Han added, "We also imagined complete simulation at the beginning, but in the end we found it impossible. No matter how realistic the voice sounds, we can always find clues from the waveform or the program. For example, boss, look at this."

He opened the waveform of a certain speech just now, pointed to two fragments that were far apart, and said: "For example, in these two places, the broken lines overlap completely. They represent two characters with exactly the same intonation, volume, and timbre. These two characters may be in the same place. in a different context."

"This happens often. When AI thinks that a certain segment is suitable to be inserted here, it will be inserted naturally. Facts also show that the same word appears in different contexts, and there is no violation."

"But we humans don't do this. It is impossible to say two words with exactly the same waveform at different times, so if you do waveform analysis, you can easily tell that the speech is synthesized."

"This is still from the waveform. If you start from the program itself, it will be easier to identify. The digital file of the synthesized voice has obvious artificial traces, which cannot be eliminated no matter what."

"Are you worried that someone will use this technology to fake voice? It's actually not that easy," Tang Xiaoyu obviously had concerns about this, and said quickly, "Unless one day, technology can generate voice directly from the digital layer, otherwise, Synthetic speech is easily recognizable."

She didn't know that the technology of directly generating voice from the digital layer had already been realized in Lou Qingyan's place.

Lou Qingyan is not surprised, and the people in the company have also adapted to these technologies, and they can accept the realistic effect of synthesized voice very well.

However, when this technology was presented in front of Echo Technology project manager Cheng Tao, the latter couldn't hide his shock at all, jumped up and kicked over the chair directly.

"This, how could this be, how could it be so realistic... Oh my god, this naturalness..."

More than shocking, Cheng Tao was simply horrified!

"With this technology, wouldn't it be easy to fake voice?" He naturally also thought of this aspect.

Tang Xiaoyu had no choice but to explain the impossibility of voice fraud.

After she finished explaining, Lou Qingyan said: "It's actually very simple. We can build a speech recognition website. As long as users upload their speech to the website for testing, they can easily know whether it is synthesized or not."

"You can have this." Cheng Tao immediately agreed.

"Now that the project has been completed, I believe Mr. Cheng will be satisfied. Let's talk about the distribution issue." Lou Qingyan said.

At the beginning, Lou Qingyan was willing to give up such a huge interest in speech synthesis, and exchanged it for a series of support from Echo Technology to the platform website.

These include a free 50-year license for the software and a co-publishing program.

"Of course," Cheng Tao recovered from the shock, and resumed his business-like tone, "We agreed to the joint issuance proposed by your company, but we don't know what kind of platform website it is that must be bundled with speech synthesis released together?"

Lou Qingyan pondered for a while and said: "Fanxing.com will expand in many different directions in the future, but for now, it is mainly about content."

"Content?" Cheng Tao was surprised, "What content? Popular articles? Short videos from self-media?"

Forgive his ignorance, when he hears the word "content", he can only think of articles in Moments and small videos in WeChat groups.

As a joint publishing partner, Lou Qingyan doesn't mind revealing his thoughts, "Mr. Cheng, have you ever thought about what brought about the explosion of WeChat and the short video industry—or the prosperity of the content industry?" ?”

Cheng Tao: "... why don't you just speak up?"

"Okay," Lou Qingyan said bluntly, "It's the rapid development of technology."

Cheng Tao was startled, then nodded, "That's right."

"The development of science and technology has lowered the threshold of many things, including the expression of ideas. This is an era in which everyone may become an opinion leader." Lou Qingyan said, "The future is an era of rising personal value. This rise is first in content. field takes place."

"First, the emergence of network media lowered the threshold of text communication; then the development of multimedia technology lowered the threshold of video creation."

"So online novels, WeChat public accounts, Weibo big Vs, Zhihu answerers, short video internet celebrities... these things have emerged one after another, and they are becoming more and more popular."

"That is to say, in the field of content—in the direction of text and short videos, the way people realize their value has shifted from the collective to the individual."

Lou Qingyan added: "Since the emergence of bug animation, this trend has expanded to the film industry."

When Cheng Tao heard this, he suddenly raised his head.

"You may already know the recent earthquake in the animation industry," Lou Qingyan shrugged, "In short, in the animation field, personal value has also begun to rise. It will not be so thorough for the time being, because new technology cannot support one person to complete An animation, but it can transfer the 'collective value' of the animation industry into a 'small team value'."

"In addition, you may not have noticed that the threshold for song creation has also been lowered. Since the release of vocalcords, the online song market has become more and more prosperous, and recently there has been a trend of reverse squeezing the living space of physical singers. This process is slow , but it always happens."

Lou Qingyan added: "Once the speech synthesis technology is released, the threshold for content creation will be lowered immediately, from the team level to the individual level. Does Mr. Cheng know what it is?"

Cheng Tao said word by word: "Radio drama."

Lou Qingyan spread his hands, "That's it."

"You want to turn radio dramas into something similar to online novels?" Cheng Tao said incredulously, "I understand, this is the first step for Fanxing.com, a platform for personal creation of radio dramas."

"No..." he said again, "The name of the website is Fanxing Audiovisual. It's not just radio dramas, but also small-team animations? The latter is the same as the way comics are created today?"

"Now that we understand everything, let's continue to talk about joint issuance." Lou Qingyan laughed.