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

Shao Yiming knew that he was finished.

The emergence of echo dubbing has completely overturned many concepts that the industry has taken for granted.

Now users can also produce high-quality audio, and the sudden emergence of UGC content is bound to squeeze the space of PGC.The latter's original quality advantages and platform advantages will no longer exist.

The high-quality PGC that Shao Yiming admired can continue to operate, but the profit level will have to be greatly discounted.And the method needs to be changed, from big productions by big companies to small productions by small teams.

This is the trend brought about by Echo Dub.From now on, the professional output of radio dramas will gradually solidify into a small workshop model, just like the web studio and the comic studio, which can form a set of simple industrial processes.

The industrial process of the web text studio is: a to complete the outline, b to complete the first [-] characters, c to write the text, and d to polish it.

The industrial process of Tiaoman Studio is divided into mirroring, drafting, line drawing, coloring, etc. Sometimes even the character design can be separated and completed by different people.

These studios all work on the Internet, most of the staff are mobile, and only editors are resident.The studio editor is a status similar to an intermediary, looking for people to work at any time from places where writers and painters gather, such as penguin groups, forums, and Weibo.Writers and painters receive work from editors, complete their own parts, and then take the money and leave.

The advancement of technology and the convenience of the platform have led to countless such small workshops, which serve as nodes and connect a huge and loose freelance market.

Shao Yiming can now assert that there will only be two types of radio drama output in the future, one is the output of individual users, and the other is the output of small workshops.

The latter is how PGC Audio will exist in the future, which is very different from the present.

Shao Yiming couldn't accept such an outrageous gap, and felt deep despair for a while.

Is it really necessary to change from a large company to a small workshop, slowly produce content, accumulate strength little by little, and I don’t know when and when we will be able to return to today’s position?

He resolutely resigned to start a business, and worked hard for such a long time. He has seen a lot of Beijing at four o'clock in the morning, and he has never put in less effort than anyone else.

Why such a result?

I have never done anything wrong in my life. I have always been a good person and a hardworking person since I was a child. The only guilt I felt when I dreamed back at midnight was that I gave up my dream in order to live a good real life.Now the dream is long gone, and the real life is still a mess.How did that happen?

Perhaps the collapse of adults is really silent. When Shao Yiming woke up from despair, he didn't even know whether he had a breakdown or not.Reality still spurs him on.

The reality that is merciless, without exception, that will never let you go simply because you have broken down:

What should be done, still has to be done.

Shao Yiming got up from despair, even if he could only start over from a small workshop, he still had to do his best for this small workshop.

Cry, despair, explode, you can vent your emotions in any way, but the thing that weighs you down is always there, it looks at you quietly and laughs at you: what's the use of struggling?

Stepping out of the ivory tower in the second stage, this is the real world of adults.

This world doesn't believe in daydreaming, and Shao Yiming doesn't have the ability to change it.In this reality, the only romance that can be given to oneself is to live the current life seriously.

Shao Yiming's misfortune is not an exception. It can even be said that compared to other big companies in the industry, he is already considered lucky.

In the early morning of the next day, various audio giants headed by Everest FM held emergency meetings to discuss how to deal with the sudden emergence of echo dubbing.

At the beginning of the meeting, it was natural to share each other's shock. Seeing that other people were as scared as they were and couldn't sleep all night, everyone felt a strange sense of balance in their hearts.

Then there was silence, the person sitting at the top didn't speak, and the others didn't know what to say.

This is the meeting room of Everest FM, and everyone from the president to the small department heads was called to the meeting.Senior executives sit at the conference table, and junior executives sit in the auditorium.

A cloud of gloom hangs over Everest, the biggest player in the premium audio industry.

After exchanging the shock of the echo dubbing, the atmosphere in the meeting room fell into a stagnation, and all the executives frowned and said nothing.The president who sat at the top was also pondering, but didn't speak for a long time.

The junior executives in the auditorium couldn't bear it anymore, and after a while, they whispered to each other.

"What's the matter, you don't talk? Isn't it a good thing for us to be able to dub by a computer? We can take this opportunity to open up new fields."

"Yeah, I think this is a big opportunity for the audio industry, and I don't know why I'm so worried."

"Didn't the directors meet every day to say how to explore UGC, don't they know now?"

Suddenly, there were two sounds of "Hang Han" in front of the conference room, and the president knocked on the table twice.

Everyone fell silent immediately.

The president asked slowly: "Do you all feel puzzled? New technology has brought new growth points to the market. We should be happy and happy. Why are we so serious?"

After a while, those who wanted to take the opportunity to make a good impression boldly said: "Yes, why? A breakthrough in speech synthesis technology will make the audio market a larger incremental market. Wait for interesting radio dramas With more works, there will be more and more users, just like the online novels back then.”

"Of course, the content of PGC will be impacted. I think...the impact is not that serious. Our company is fully capable of resisting pressure. I guess that a large number of small companies will go bankrupt in the future, and large companies will explore new ones step by step. model, take this opportunity to take it to the next level.”

Several executives at the conference table shook their heads at the same time.

"You're ignoring audiobooks."

"Ah?" Everyone was taken aback.

"Audiobooks are the most important part of paid audio. Not only our Everest, but all companies that enter the paid audio industry must make audiobooks. It is the most basic source of profit and users, and it is the cornerstone of this industry."

What does this have to do with the present?

The executives continued to explain: "The reason why many people believe that audio payment cannot be UGC is actually because the most basic content of audio books, it cannot be UGC, otherwise it will infringe. But now, echo dubbing has appeared, audio Not only can books not be UGC, they can’t even be PGC.”

"Do you know what it's going to be?"

The president of Everest stood up directly from the chair, propped up the conference table with both hands, looked down at the crowd, and said word by word: "MGC, the content produced by the machine."

Everyone suddenly realized.

Input text to automatically generate audiobooks, isn't it just machine production?

"Machine-generated content has existed before, but it has never been applied on such a large scale. This is the first time, unprecedented, and it is a pioneering attack."

"Once it succeeds, everyone, the future will change completely. The content field will be occupied by more and more artificial intelligence. Today it can only complete the audio adaptation of the original work, who knows if it can directly output the work tomorrow?"

"I heard that cutting-edge technology is researching AI scripts? Imagine that one day the machine writes the script itself, enters the AI ​​dubbing and adjusts the parameters randomly... This is a radio drama completely produced by the machine, comrades!"

The president still doesn't know the existence of AI slides, let alone that the animation content has realized the "semi-machine production" of AI slides and human cooperation.

When he said this, he calmed down and took a sip of water, "Of course, this is not the focus of our discussion, let's get back to the topic. Why does the market for audiobooks exist? It is because many people feel tired from reading books and are not used to listening to machine reading. Human voice reading."

"Now machine reading can also achieve the effect of human voice reading. As long as this function is installed on the reading app, any novel can be instantly turned into an audio book. Do you know what this means? Users no longer need us." The middleman is gone! As long as the reading website and Echo Technology reach a cooperation, we will lose the entire audiobook market in an instant!"

With a bang, the bomb entered the water, setting off huge waves in everyone's ears.

This is where the real power of Echo Dubbing lies. In addition to holding up UGC and squeezing PGC, the most serious thing is that it brings an effect similar to dredging from the bottom of the pot - draining the cornerstone of the entire paid audio!

This is a bad news no less than the bankruptcy of the company. If it is not impossible to hide it, the executives will never tell it.

Someone couldn't help it, and whispered: "What the hell is Echo Technology trying to do, to drive our entire industry to death?!"

The president heard it and replied: "It didn't kill the entire industry, but it pushed us all back to the starting line."

The audio book market that has been developed with such great effort has since been abolished, and there is no reason to justify tens of millions of copyright fees in the hands.The high-quality radio dramas produced with huge sums of money suddenly become ordinary works that can be completed by small workshops.

The impact on Everest is not the biggest. For example, Dogpaw FM specializes in paid radio dramas, and Diligent People listens to books and specializes in audiobooks. They have to retreat from their best fields and switch to the UGC model to start again.

If paid audio is likened to a race, each company was running well, but they have already run out of their own long-term advantages. Suddenly, an echo dubbing and a whistle end the game.

Everyone was forced to return to the starting point and start running again on a different track.

The advantages that each company has worked so hard to create are gone. No matter how well they did in the past, they must now change lanes and start again.Whoever can take the lead on the new track of UGC will be able to lead the entire industry.

This is too rogue.

Did Lou Qingyan do this on purpose?Really not.If he wants to enter the race, even if he is 800 years behind, he can still catch up, without forcing others back to the starting line.His heart is not so small.

This can only be said to be a coincidence, or...

"This is the wave." President Everest said lightly.

While talking, he spread out his phone, "It was just the first bad news, comrades, and there is the second bad news. We are still looking for how to get started, and some people have already passed away."

On the screen of the mobile phone, the four characters of "Fanxing Audiovisual" are displayed.

Fanxing Audiovisual was launched together with the software. However, in order to keep the software in the limelight to the greatest extent, the promotional resources in the early stage were not given to it.When the popularity of software climbs to the top, it will be the time for it to rise to the sky in one fell swoop.

Even so, many people have discovered the existence of this site.

Among them is Zhao Ziping, a deep space science and technology fan.

Zhao Ziping is the U station up master who once became popular with bug animations. Since then, he has been paying attention to the trend of deep space technology. Later, he went to Gu Changxi's concert, and he and his girlfriend became completely different. Die-hard fans of fire, the obsession with deep space technology has reached the level of checking their official website if they have nothing to do.

As a result, such a boring operation actually produced surprises.

On the official website of Deep Space Technology, Quiet Mimi launched a new product.

"Fanxing Audiovisual, what is this?"

As soon as he entered this website, the big recommended picture on the homepage immediately shocked him, "Oh my god, isn't this the novel I'm chasing! Radio drama? Fuck, the copyright of this book's radio drama has already been sold? What's wrong with the website? No publicity!"

The big picture began to scroll to the right, and the next one was another radio drama adapted from a heavyweight web novel...Zhao Ziping found out that this website seems to be a bit nb, but there are so many radio dramas adapted from popular web texts?

Just click on it and listen to it, the quality is very good.

These are very high-ranking novels with high IP value. In terms of radio drama and animation copyright alone, the price of each one starts at tens of millions.

"Deep Space is really rich and powerful." Zhao Ziping felt sour when he thought of Fire and his two billion.

In addition to the work recommendation, there is also a self-introduction of the website in the scrolling big picture.

"Audio and video communication community, now only the audio part is online?" Zhao Ziping was a little shocked after reading the introduction.

If everything in the introduction is true, this website will form a model between u station and novel website, where there can be a variety of short audio programs and long-term serial radio dramas.Echo Dubbing allows users to easily complete the production.

Fuck... Echo dubbing!Why is this website launched so coincidentally, and what does it have to do with Echo Dubbing?

Zhao Ziping was a fucking dog. He swore that if the echo dubbing that shocked the whole country in the past two days had nothing to do with the fire, he would go out and fuck a dog right away.

Fire is really getting more and more nb, from doing things in obscurity, to running out of the country to make troubles, and now he has learned to throw the blame to others after doing things.The animation world is not over yet, is Dad Fire going to turn the audio world upside down again?

However, nothing can stop Zhao Ziping from registering as Fanxing Up.

"Hmph, I'm here to provoke you, I'm the man who is about to occupy Fanxing!"

From the author registration page, you can click into a window, which says "signed author benefits",

There are two most important ones. The first is the cooperation between Fanxing.com and Echo. After the author signs a contract with the website, he can use Echo dubbing for free, and there is no need to pay monthly rent.

Second, ordinary authors can use one hundred timbre materials provided by the website, and contracted authors can use thousands.

When Zhao Ziping saw the second article, his heart was filled with admiration for fire, and he thought to himself: So he was waiting here.

Echo dubbing has been online for two days, and all walks of life have been amazed and praised, but several questions have also been raised.For example, everyone is very confused, why are there so few preset tone materials?

There are only more than ten timbres, and it is difficult to make a play, which obviously does not meet the diverse needs of the radio play market.

What's the point of deliberately limiting one's own functions in this way?

In this regard, Echo Technology's answer is: users can load audio files by themselves.

Isn't this tm nonsense? If users can make their own audio files, who will look for you.The sound source production of echo dubbing is obviously much more complicated than that of vocalcords.

Now, everything is clear.

Fire gave the software to Echo, but not the timbre library. He quietly grabbed thousands of timbre materials by himself.

Still copyrighted.

There are two kinds of timbre materials, one is purely machine-generated, and the other is purchased vocal copyright.

Scrolling down the copyright list, the names of every sound source provider are familiar, and the names of big-name voice actors are all listed, and half of the dubbing industry is almost like this.Zhao Ziping has reason to suspect that the other half of the country has not yet appeared only because the time is too short.

Fanxing bought these copyrights, and other audio platforms cannot use them.Now Fanxing has gathered all the big-name voice actors, and half of the dubbing industry is in the bag, which is equivalent to half of the UGC radio drama market.Because these sounds have their own flow.

Just imagine, on Fanxing.com, you only need to pay to hear your favorite seiyuu say to yourself, "You are so cute."

Now it's just a voice actor, what if I buy the copyright of the star's voice in the future...?

Of course, there are strict restrictions on the use of copyright vocals, and data monitoring must be carried out online during production. If there are words and sentences prohibited by the copyright owner, such as yhsq, they will be blocked before they are synthesized.

That's enough, Zhao Ziping's blood is already boiling.

"No, while the website is still unknown, hurry up and release the work. I want to be Fanxing's first batch of signed authors!"

Zhao Ziping had already tasted the sweetness of using the bug animation last time. This time, he registered the Fanxing author account one step faster, which has an advantage over the latecomers.Keep up with the pace of fire, there is meat to eat!

"Which type of work do you start with?"

Zhao Ziping looked through the timbre material library and found that some copyrighted vocals can also be used for a fee.

Coincidentally, he found the voice actors and actresses of the latest idol drama in it.

"Understood!" He decided excitedly, "The various misunderstandings in this drama have long wanted to make video complaints, why not make a 'weird development direction of dog blood'!"