A short video titled "New Year's greetings from overseas bosses" has attracted widespread attention on the Internet. In this video, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Taylor Swift and other internationally renowned figures send New Year's greetings for 2024 to global audiences in fluent Chinese. This achievement was not achieved through conventional shooting, but by utilizing advanced AI generation technology. This not only demonstrates the powerful capabilities of artificial intelligence in language translation and video production, but also marks a breakthrough for China's AI technology in practical application scenarios.
Chinese blessings from overseas bosses (Source: Phoenix Technology)
AI automatically adapts to mouth shape and accent, and netizens’ magically modified videos break the circle
This popular short video was generated through Silicon Language translation and is currently undergoing grayscale testing on the WeChat applet. You only need to upload the video, select the language, and wait a few minutes to preview and download. After experiencing it, the author feels that the application is simple to operate and has a low threshold for use. It can translate the speech of the characters in the video while achieving precise lip synchronization, and the overall timbre and texture are also completely automatically matched.
The manufacturer that launched this mini program is not "big manufacturers" such as Tencent and Alibaba, but Silicon-based Intelligence, an AI manufacturer that focuses on the digital human track. According to official information from Silicon Intelligence, “Silicon Language Translator” was launched on December 27, and a person close to Silicon Intelligence also revealed that the mini program had more than 100,000 users on the first day it was launched.
The app is simple, clear, and easy to use, and the language, mouth shape, accent, and expressions of the translated film are seamlessly matched. The creativity and imagination brought by netizens' crazy activities have also spawned a series of magical works. Giao Ge and Guo Degang, who discuss the philosophy of life in English, teach you how to learn English through traditional stand-up comedy. It was also this small program that allowed Musk to show off his Chinese and David Beckham to send New Year greetings in Chinese. This made a number of Chinese New Year greeting videos from big guys go viral.
Cross-border e-commerce promotion in three foreign languages by the obligatory landlady - Source: Chinagoods
The fall of the Tower of Babel and the commercialization of AI
In the past 2023, more than 200 large AI models have been produced in China that are used in various industries, including intelligent image generation, text generation, speech synthesis, video generation, assisted live broadcasts... Various applications are emerging in an endless stream, and while each application has become popular and out of the circle, we actually still have many commercial myths about AI, and we need to think more about the possibilities of AI in commercial application scenarios. However, a short-term entertainment craze alone is not enough to bring long-term social value to a company, and it is difficult for a company to survive for a long time using commercial logic.
There are still many "pain points" and "itch points" for this type of AI products: for example, the well-known stability problem of network connections calls for more domestic AI manufacturers to provide products with higher technical capabilities; and for users, ease of use is always an insurmountable hurdle. No matter how easy-to-use the prompt words are, the democratization of applications will face challenges. Optimistically speaking, in the future of rapid technological expansion, especially in the context of China’s efforts to increase its efforts in the artificial intelligence industry, there is a high probability that these issues will be solved.
After trying out Silicon Language Translation, a domestic small program, I can see that an easy-to-use, efficient, and professional business scenario has unfolded. As stated in the self-introduction of Silicon Language Translation, with the assistance of AI, creators only need to focus on the creativity itself, maintain passion, reduce costs and improve efficiency, and produce more video content that serves the world.
Silicon Language Translation uses accuracy and lip-sync matching technology to quickly generate overseas marketing short videos, helping practitioners communicate more efficiently with global customers and promote the implementation of commercial projects; shooting advertisements does not require multi-language translation, the models directly match the required national languages, and quickly generates different versions of advertising works, saving a lot of production costs and time; self-media bloggers can easily select the target language of the video, realizing one-click translation of foreign language film and television content, simplifying the creation process."
At the same time, for professional groups and heavy users, Silicon-based Intelligence has also launched anylang.ai for PC use. Unlike the Silicon Language translation app, which is lighter and has a lower threshold, Silicon-based Intelligence has given anylang.ai richer and more powerful functions, including rapid cloning of digital people, accurate content editing, support for 27 languages, etc. In specific scenarios such as enterprises going overseas, cross-border e-commerce, international advertising, global publicity, and video creation, these special functions make AI's efficiency, accuracy, and convenience more vivid.
In the Bible story, humans united to build the "Tower of Babel" leading to heaven, but God made humans speak different languages, unable to communicate with each other, and scattered. But with the blessing of AI, the "Tower of Babel" is now quietly falling. AI translation seems to have become a correct way to open up artificial intelligence, creating a concrete scenario for the rapid commercial application of artificial intelligence.