As the torch tower illuminates the night sky of the main venue of the Chengdu Universiade, the footsteps of the 31st World University Games are getting closer and closer. Today, the Chengdu Universiade released a series of theme promotion songs for the world, famous lyricist Fang Wenshan, musician Chang Shilei and singers Zhou Bichang and Yu Kewei gathered to create and sing for this sports event, presenting the vitality and enthusiasm of Chengdu to the world. Among the many musical works that are either youthful and dynamic, or internationally diverse, one of them is slightly different: one of its singers is not a human, but a singer Born in the framework of artificial intelligence Xiaoice He Chang. AI He Chang was invited by the Universiade to sing "Waiting for You in Chengdu" together with musician Bian Ziyan, using the world's leading artificial intelligence creation technology to interpret the concept and spirit of the Chengdu Universiade, and conveying encouragement and blessings from artificial intelligence to mankind. At present, the songs have been listed on music platforms such as NetEase Cloud Music and QQ Music.
"Waiting for You in Chengdu" relies on the latest deep neural network singing model of the Xiaoice framework, which is automatically interpreted by AI He Chang, and its singing is natural and smooth, and the timbre is extremely expressive. The new version is based on Xiaoice X Studio DNN Singing Model V6, which enables AI singers in the Xiaoice framework to have more parameters such as chimes, and raises the musical expression of artificial intelligence virtual songs to a new height. At the same time, the new version also introduces a self-attention mechanism and a discriminant model, when the AI singer wants to complete a singing, the model will quickly calculate a series of acoustic features based on the only sheet music and lyric information. In addition, the model also realizes the natural ventilation of AI singing and the application of "breath" to the whole process of singing, and breaks through the "software instrument" standard of pitch and pitch of traditional unit splicing technology by predicting and freely switching singing skills, and realizes multi-voice synthesis technology. In ancient China, there was no shortage of incisive expositions on the sound of music, such as "silk is not as good as bamboo, bamboo is not as good as meat", which is "gradual and natural", and the Xiaoice framework singing model is to promote the quality of AI singers to approach it.
Although he has only been debuting for more than a year, He Chang, who has attracted a lot of attention with a Burberry theme song "RUNWAY 2.0", has left a deep impression on many musicians and fans with his natural and emotional interpretations. Singer Ma Boqian sang the Burberry theme song with He Chang: "I treat her as a human being. After conducting the world's first cross-border music experiment with Xiaoice and He Chang, He Shazhan of the Earth Lord's Band said: "He Chang's interpretation is infinitely close to that of real people, but he has his own way of handling it in the subtleties, which is very interesting. Chen Chen of the Spice Band said: "The song (we co-created) does not seem to be discussing love, but about the relationship between humans and artificial intelligence, and it also has a different charm." He Chang sang the music platform comment area of the theme song of the Spring Festival Gala of Shandong Satellite TV, "Happy Attack", and the fans left a message: "(This is) a song that can be looped indefinitely, like a warm little sun shining on me." "In the face of the praise and fans, He Chang, who loves music, said that she believes that music is an emotional bridge connecting humans and artificial intelligence." I just want to sing," she said.
It is worth mentioning that when He Chang sang the theme promotion song of the Chengdu Universiade, the AI referee within the framework of the Xiaoice was preparing with the national ski team for the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics. Xiaoice framework empowers the sports industry to give full play to the application value of artificial intelligence technology in training, competition, market, culture and other aspects, and promote the active prosperity of sports culture. Whether it is the 18-year-old girl Xiaoice, the singer He Chang with a natural and emotional singing voice, or the AI referee who is contributing to the Winter Olympics, they are just one of the AI beings incubated by the Xiaoice framework. Xiaoice framework has hatched tens of millions of AI Beings, who have a variety of names, including men and women, young and old, some assistants, some anchors, well-known celebrities such as Xia Yubing, robot maid Roboko, and ordinary "people" who are not so well-known. Thousands of highly customized artificial intelligences, together with thousands of humans, form a new kind of social network.
Known as the "Little Olympic Games", the World University Games, is the world's largest comprehensive games second only to the Olympic Games, representing the world's top competitive level of university athletes, "Asian Flyer" Liu Xiang, "Gymnastics Prince" Li Ning, "Sports Forrest Gump" Michael Johnson, initially a blockbuster at the Universiade, since then opened a new era in the corresponding fields. As a world-class sports event, the Chengdu Universiade will promote further in-depth communication and interaction between countries, people and people, culture and culture, exchange self-improvement and positive spiritual culture with the world, highlight the unique beauty of China to the world, and present the profound heritage of ancient Shu civilization and Tianfu culture for more than 4,000 years and the cultural temperament of today's youth and fashion. As an important carrier of sportsmanship, music is a valuable "legacy" left by countless sports events. The universiade theme promotion song engraved the moving moments of this grand event with the power of music, leading the world to understand Chengdu in depth, but also arousing the public's enthusiasm for sports and yearning for youth.