Recently, the Himalayan 123 Carnival was officially launched, with more than one million users checking in to participate in the event, and the White Night Theater launched the "Godfather Trilogy" multi-person audio drama. The play uses AI timbre reproduction to allow everyone to relive the world's classic literary works. It is understood that "The Godfather Trilogy" has received nearly 430,000 ** copies before the 123 Carnival, ranking seventh on the film and television list, and becoming one of the popular works during the Himalayan 123 Carnival.
When it comes to gangsters, The Godfather is known as a timeless classic, it is the masterpiece of American writer Mario Puzo and is considered a classic movie blueprint. Adapted from the first part of the "Godfather Trilogy", directed by Francis Ford Coppola, and starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino and other stars The film "The Godfather" trilogy left a deep impression on the audience.
On the eve of the Himalayan 123 Carnival, Himalaya joined hands with reader Panda Jun to create this innovative high-quality multiplayer audio drama. In order to make the characters more three-dimensional, the plot is fuller, and the scene is more shocking, Himalayan "The Godfather" restores a large number of original details that have not been shown in the movie, so that the audience can call "enjoyable"!The audio drama not only tells a good story, but also conveys the importance of family and friendship, as well as the principles and means of survival, the struggle history of the little people and other profound human nature**.
For the first time, this audio drama uses AI timbre reproduction technology to restore the classic timbre in the movie. Himalayan Netwen and the Boutique Story Department teamed up with Hima Everest Laboratory to successfully create the classic timbre of the soul of the movie "The Godfather" Don Corleone, and the former also specially invited Cheng Yuzhu, a senior dubbing director from Shanghai Film Translation Studio with rich life experience and superb acting skills, to record the basic lines as the input source for the timbre conversion of "AI Godfather".
The innovative recording of the Himalayan Everest Laboratory uses VC (voice-conversion) technology, that is, timbre conversion technology, which can convert existing audio materials into specified timbres, and retain the tone, mood, and sentence breaking Xi of the source audio to the greatest extent. In order to achieve the best effect, Himalaya specially invited a well-known English voice actor and up main dish to record auxiliary corpus materials, and the godfather he imitated, Tang Corleone, was brilliant and won the unanimous recognition of netizens. After a month of training and iteration, the Himalayan Everest Lab produced the "Godfather Version3" voice pack. In the end, Himalaya succeeded in creating an "AI godfather" with both form and spirit.
This innovation of "sound reproduction" will bring a new immersive experience to users and lead a new trend in the field of audio content production with AI technology. Previously, with the authorization of Beijing Shan Tianfang Art Communication Co., Ltd., Ximalaya used Text-to-Speech (TS) technology to perfectly restore Mr. Shan Tianfang's voice, and for the first time, Mr. Shan Tianfang's AI synthesis sound was applied to six books with different styles. Shan Ruilin, the son of Mr. Shan Tianfang, commented, "When I heard the voice of TTS, my heart was suddenly shocked, as if my father had returned to this world." At present, more than 100 "Shan Tianfang's voice reproduction" has been launched, with a total of more than 100 million, becoming one of the models of AIGC.
In order to contribute a more high-quality auditory feast to users, the Himalayan Online Literature and Boutique Story Department invited the Golden Whale Sound Factory as the production team of the multi-person audio drama "The Godfather Trilogy". Previously, Golden Whale Sound Factory and Himalaya have had rich experience in working together, and they have produced a series of masterpieces such as "Keigo Higashino Malice" at the White Nights Theater and "Disney Classics Collection" at the Pegasus Theater, which have been widely praised by Himalayan users. The multi-person audio drama "Godfather Trilogy" cooperated with Himalaya this time has created a precedent for domestic human-machine cooperation to record audio works.
The Godfather Trilogy "AI "Voice Reproduction" allows everyone to appreciate the magic of AI technology, and also provides new ideas and methods for classic literary works to rejuvenate themselves. In the future, we believe that Ximalaya will use more efficient and sophisticated production capabilities to make excellent literary works heard by more people and bring users a more immersive sound experience.