Professor Li's student's name is Li Ran - when he first heard the name, Lao Zhao wondered in his heart whether it would be Professor Li's illegitimate son, so he helped the student come out to find him. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Listening to the name, it is very similar, Li Mingran, Li Ran.

However, after seeing the real person, Lao Zhao can be sure that it is not.

Li Mingran is polite and polite, Li Ran has nothing to do with any doctorate and master's degree at first glance, he is a black fat man at all, he looks very vicious, and he is no different from a black pig on the street.

It is said that it is born from the heart, and Lao Zhao can't understand how he grows like this, he is a doctor, and he has been cultivated on the university campus for almost ten years.

It's no wonder that he can't find an investor, Ma Yun just looks weird, not evil, but this classmate Li Ran, no matter who sees it, the first impression will not be good.

Zhao Zejun tried his best to let himself put aside the stereotyped impression of ugly people and listen to the other party.

"Mr. Zhao, my research results are mainly artificial intelligence voice ......" It can be seen that communicating directly with Zhao Zejun face-to-face, Li Ran was a little nervous, and almost knocked over the water cup on the table when he opened the notebook.

Zhao Zejun quietly moved the other party's water cup to the side, nodded, and continued to listen to him.

"Artificial intelligence, as the name suggests, computers can 'speak' like humans. The 'talking sound' we usually hear from the computer is generally pre-recorded, for example, playing music, it sounds like the computer is talking, which is essentially the computer playing a pre-recorded audio, not the computer itself singing. Artificial intelligence speech is to let the computer recognize words and then make a human-like sound......"

As he spoke, he typed a piece of text at random, which should be Xu Zhimo's poem, and clicked a few buttons in the software, and the computer really made a voice very close to that of a human being, reading the poem.

But the computer's voice is emotionless, bland and uneventful, and reads intermittently.

The principle of navigation sound is similar to that of later generations.

Computers are a very stupid thing, and their strength lies in repetitive calculations, and what humans can do is very simple, but it is very difficult for computers to do, requiring thousands of instructions, and most of them are even unachievable.

Such as feelings, judgments, intuition, and so on.

For an adult, 'sentence breaking' is a very simple thing, and it doesn't use your brain at all, but the computer has to go through N calculations, which is extremely wasteful.

Therefore, it is also said that human beings themselves are the most mysterious and greatest 'biological machines' created by God.

I interrupted. Zhao Zejun looked up at the time, and then said: "As far as I know, HKUST Tengfei is also doing artificial intelligence voice, and it is doing better than you." I've listened to it, and it's much smoother, and I can already use both Chinese and English. What are the advantages of your products?"

"Mr. Zhao, that's what I'm going to say next. Li Ran swallowed.

"Don't be nervous, there's still a lot of time. Lao Zhao waved and smiled.

"Hmm. Li Ran said: "That's right, Tengfei's recognition and reading started early, with a large investment, which is ahead of my research." But in the simulation of human voices, I may have to surpass them. ”

"Takeoff also has a vocal simulation. For example, imitating the voice of a certain star. Zhao Zejun clearly remembers that in the navigation of later generations, the application is analog technology, and you can choose Guo Degang's voice and Lin Zhilin's voice, which sounds quite like that.

"But don't you think that the sound of Tengfei's simulation is similar to the shape, not the god?" Speaking of professional expertise, Li Ran seemed to have changed into a different person, and asked with a bright gaze, "It can simulate the voice of a star, but it doesn't have charm, and it is a machine sound when you hear it." ”

"That's right. There are no emotional ups and downs and setbacks. Zhao Zejun nodded.

"In professional terms, the three main characteristics of sound are tone, loudness and timbre, loudness is the vibration amplitude of the sound waveform, the frequency of the tone, that is, the tenor, mezzo-soprano, etc., and the timbre is the waveform of the sound wave, which determines the quality of the sound. ”

Li Ran began to talk eloquently: "The first step in simulating a person's voice is that these three characteristics are very close to my own characteristics. Like running, they ran faster, they ran for half a minute, and although I was behind, as long as I kept running, I could reach their level......"

Lao Zhao nodded and motioned for him to continue.

"The first step is to achieve the resemblance of the three features, and the second step, if you want to achieve the resemblance, you must capture the cooperation of a person's voice, express it through the computer, and store a large number of speaking habits of a person in order to simulate the real speaking voice of the other party. ”

"Can you demonstrate?" asked Zhao Zejun.

"Yes. For example, I have stored about 10 hours of my personal speech in a database, and the content of the speech is very arbitrary, and if I don't use this database, the computer imitates my voice, which is probably like this......"

He clicked on the program, and the computer read a paragraph, which at first glance sounded very close to Li Ran's voice, but with a little attention, he would judge that this was not Li Ran.

There is no form and no god, as if Li Ran is talking very mechanically.

"Then if you use my voice database, after analysis, this is ......," Li Ran said while operating the computer with his head down.

But after that, the computer didn't make any sound.

"What's wrong?" Zhao Zejun was stunned and asked.

I saw Li Ran raise his head, look at Lao Zhao with a smile, and his lips were closed.

But his voice rang out in the room again: "Then if you use my voice database, after analysis, this is ......"

"Oh!" Lao Zhao suddenly realized, Li Ran didn't speak at all when he lowered his head just now, all he heard was the voice of artificial intelligence in the computer.

"It's kind of interesting, you put it again, I'll listen carefully. Zhao Zejun said.

"I'll put something else in it, let it read a passage. Li Ran said it himself this time, and then imported a commonly used chat quote and restarted the program.

"Hello Auntie, I'm Li Ran, is Professor Li at home, is that the case, I have a project ......"

Zhao Zejun listened carefully and nodded slightly.

This time, I had a preconceived idea, knowing that this was a machine voice, and then paying special attention to distinguish it, I could still find that there was a certain difference between it and Li Ran himself.

But if you don't pay attention, or if you are not very familiar with Li Ran, at first glance, the person who spoke was Li Ran.

"What if you change to simulate someone else?" Zhao Zejun asked.

"The larger and more detailed the database, the more accurate the simulations will be. Li Ran said: "I have experimented, generally I can have four or five hours of the other party's speech as data, and I can roughly grasp the other party's speaking habits, the more data, the more detailed, the more realistic the simulation." Like the one I just had, I had 10 hours to speak. But theoretically, it's impossible to be 100% fake. ”

"Hmm. Lao Zhao looked at the time again, and 35 minutes had passed, "Your technology is indeed interesting, but how will it be commercially applied in the future?"

"Mr. Zhao, I am not ready to commercialize it for the time being. This technology is not yet mature, the first step is to simulate the three features of the sound is still a long way to go; the second step, the collection of the database has no rules at all, can only be through a large number of speeches, I want to solve both problems, after the technology is further mature, and then commercial application. ”

Li Ran grinned: "But scientific research needs money, and I also need money for my own life." ”

"Have you found any other investments at the moment?" asked Zhao Zejun.

Li Ran shook his head.

"In this way, I will open a small laboratory for you in Zelianke, and the office expenses will be solved by Zelianke, and temporarily give you the basic funds of 500,000 yuan a year for scientific research and personnel recruitment. If there is a breakthrough, or the project is in need of additional funding, you can come to me for special approval. ”

After a pause, "I acquired this project, and you retain 20% of the interest, but when and how to commercialize it must be decided by me, and you are only responsible for scientific research." Okay?"

Li Ran's expression changed from joy to hesitation.

Zhao Zejun glanced at the time on the wall for the last time, got up, put on his coat, and said casually: "In this way, you will be given 800,000 basic funds a year, and you will retain 25% of the equity, and there is no room for bargaining." You think about it yourself, and if you are willing to let the secretary take you to sign the contract now. ”

As he spoke, he picked up his bag, closed his computer, and walked out with his bag.

"Wait Mr. Zhao. If I join, then I will be considered a staff member of Zelianko. Li Ran caught up and asked.

Of course, the treatment is the same as that of the project leader of the company's technical department. Zhao Zejun nodded as a matter of course.

Li Ranyi gritted his teeth: "Okay, I'll sign it." ”

"You're welcome. Zhao Zejun nodded and smiled, turned around and picked up the internal phone on the table: "Gianna, you come down, take Li Ran to sign the contract and go through the entry procedures." ”

……

After going downstairs, Hummer H2 and Cadillac nanny car have been waiting at the door of the company, originally ready to do a plane, think about going to Hangzhou or have to use a car, simply drive yourself, anyway, the nanny car has supporting facilities, tired to sleep, hungry to eat, all the way is easy.

Junzi and Xiao Wu sat in the driver's seat of the nanny car, Andrei took three other bodyguards to sit in a Humvee behind, and the two cars left the company, got on the elevated road, passed the city and got on the highway to Hangzhou.

There is a lot of space in the nanny's car, Lao Zhao didn't sleep well last night, he slept on the sofa, Zhou Na turned on the ventilation equipment in the car, and then sat at the table and did his homework on a pile of documents.

The nanny car drove smoothly at high speeds, and there were almost no bumps and noises felt in the car.

Lao Zhao soon fell asleep.

The dream was dark, and the hair under my feet was light, as if I was floating in the sky.

Only far away, there was a little light, and a familiar voice seemed to come from the light, calling its own name.

Zhao Zejun used his hands and feet together, like a swimming turtle, like that little bit of light.

The closer he got to the light, the clearer the voice calling his name became, although Lao Zhao couldn't tell whose voice it was, but he instinctively sensed that the owner of this voice must be very important to him.

This man needs him!

Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up, hurry up! Lao Zhao shouted in his heart!

Sure enough, the speed accelerated, as if he had learned light skills, and flew in his dream.

Finally, before the 'highlights'.

That's a big hole.

Lao Zhao hurriedly wanted to drill through.

As soon as he got over his head, Lao Zhao was stunned.

Everything behind that hole of light was too familiar and too real.

In a fifty square two-bedroom old house, in the small living room, my father sat on a small chair in a big pants and white sweatshirt, and my mother sat on the side, holding a white and chubby baby in her arms.

Mom and Dad didn't seem to notice themselves emerging from the void, and they were intently teasing the little baby.

Only the little baby, waving his white and chubby little hands, grinned and babbled at himself.

I'm back to my last life?!

Lao Zhao's heart was blank, and he didn't know whether he was happy or sad.

The little baby waved his hand, and Lao Zhao suddenly felt a pull that he couldn't resist at all, and pulled him forward violently, seeing that he was about to be pulled back from the void to the reality of his previous life, back to the fifty-square-meter old house.

Lao Zhao instinctively wanted to resist, but he couldn't use any strength at all.

The little baby waved happily, faster and faster, and every time he waved his little hand, Zhao Zejun would be dragged back to 'reality' from the void little by little.

At this moment, his heels suddenly tightened, and there was an opposite force, which suddenly pulled him back into the dark void.

The last thing he saw, the smiling baby, suddenly began to cry.

The sound of 'wow wow' echoed in his ears, as if calling him back.

"Brother, brother, are you okay, are you having a nightmare?" Brother...... "Zhou Na's voice came from a daze in his ears.

Zhao Zejun woke up suddenly.

In the nanny car, Zhou Na half-squatted in front of the small sofa and looked at herself nervously.

"It's okay, I didn't sleep well last night. Lao Zhao sighed and opened the window casually.

Not far away, a few big words.

Welcome to Hangzhou.