AI DJ, meeting poster with Shin Hae-chul. /Photo courtesy of KT
KT announced on the 12th that it had restored the voice of the late DJ Shin Hae-cheol, a great musician and popular radio, with its artificial intelligence (AI) technology.
KT restored his voice by learning the radio broadcast data of ‘Shin Hae-cheol’s Ghost Station’ (goth), which was conducted by Mr. Shin Hae-chul for 11 years from 2001 to 2012, using AI, using the personalized speech synthesis (P-TTS) developed by KT. did. This technology uses deep learning to synthesize the voice of a specific person from voice data in a short time.
KT produced ‘AI DJ, Meeting with Shin Hae-cheol’ with the voice of Hae-cheol Shin, restored with AI. The company explained that the AI developed a voice similar to what Hae-cheol Shin speaks naturally by learning not only the level of pronouncing sentences, but also the speech patterns and intonations.
This content can be listened to through KT GiGA Genie for about a month until October 7 in the form of three radio broadcasts. You can ask GiGA Genie to ‘listen to Shin Hae-chul’s voice’. For fans, it will be released on the KT YouTube channel from the 17th. Writer Bae Soon-tak, the main writer of ‘Bae Chul-soo’s Music Camp’, who had a radio show with Shin Hae-chul, and the host of MBC’s ‘Bae Soon-tak’s Beside’, participated in the production.
In ‘Meeting AI DJ, Shin Hae-chul’, KT expresses the Shin Hae-chul that the public remembers, including the appearance of Shin Hae-chul, who criticizes popular music policies on the topic of the difficulties of indie bands in the Corona era that our society is facing recently. He explained that he was trying to do it.
KT prepared a listening review event along with this content production. KT GiGA Genie customers who have listened to all three episodes of ‘AI DJ Meets Shin Hae-Chul’ will receive an event participation guide message through the GiGA Genie app. Various prizes will be offered through a lottery to customers who have left a listening review through a separate URL provided. More details can be found on the event page of KT’s official website.
Sung-mi Seong-mi, managing director of KT’s IMC, said, “I hope KT’s AI technology can be applied to popular culture, where customers spend a lot of time.”
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