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When I watched sci-fi movies when I was a child, there was an immutable rule for robots to speak, that is, to change all tones to one. This may be one of our earliest "stereotypes" of robots.

But decades later, AI robots can tell the difference between true and false by imitating human speech-not only talking, but even AI singing can make you deeply doubt your ability to distinguish.

Just recently, another AI virtual singer has become popular. She is Luya from iFLYTEK.

Luya officially announced its debut on August 26, 2022, with big eyes, pink meathead and lovely image with cool costumes of science and technology, which can easily inspire people's love.

As a virtual singer, Luya is not only cute and playful, but also a great singer. You can feel her latest single, "shimmer in the Mist":

Listen to the sweet timbre, the emotional singing, the smooth and natural change of breath and sound, if you don't know in advance, is it hard for you to imagine that this is sung by AI?

Synchronized with this brand new single is the news from Luya working with the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. She will enter the iFLYTEK Music Joint Research and Development Center of the Music Engineering Department of Shanghai, participate in the development and study of "AI + Music", and explore more possibilities of AI enabling music.

This can't help but make people more interested in the stories behind Luya.

In recent years, there are indeed many "virtual digital people" around us, most of whom have special skills, or can draw and write poems, or can sing and dance, and become "new generation idols". And Luya is iFLYTEK's first AI virtual singer. When it comes to "singing skills", Luya is definitely outstanding and special among the many virtual singers. After all, the iFLYTEK behind her has always been known for her powerful AI voice and language technology.

In addition to the "glimmer in the fog" just mentioned, Luya released another single earlier, called "Polaris and Meteor shower", which is also comparable to that of a real-life singer, with a refreshing voice with a relaxed and flexible singing style, to paraphrase netizens: "it's like summer ice cream, making people feel happy."

In addition, on Luya's social account "LUYA doesn't eat stewed Duck", you can see other works she sings, ranging from antique elegance and beauty, fresh and mellow folk songs, and funny electronic smarts.

When you listen to these works of Luya, I believe you will ask questions in amazement:

What magic did iFLYTEK do to make Luya's singing so natural and resonant?

Here we might as well first explore the advanced AI voice technology behind Luya.

The first thing to be clear is that unlike many virtual singers who use live voice, Luya's timbre is created entirely by AI, not by a real person's voice. In other words, the fresh voice you hear is really unique to Luya and a unique label for Luya.

So how does AI make Luya's voice so natural and comparable to that of a real singer?

To put it simply, with AI enabling the debugging and determination of the target timbre system, as well as voice conversion and other operations, and then integrated with the adjustment of expert experience, Luya will be able to sing as much as she wants with her own beautiful timbre.

In this way, the songs performed by Luya not only have a strong "Luya attribute", but also the sound quality is quite natural and emotional.

At the same time, there is another advantage, that is, the human voice will be unstable, and it is often difficult to adapt to a variety of music styles, while the Luya voice can adapt to a variety of styles, more stable and secure.

So we can see that in front of the "LUYA does not eat stewed duck" account, Luya can easily handle a variety of music singing styles, and the voice singing, performance are very stable, the proper "strength singer".

In short, based on such a strong set of technical support, Luya will naturally be able to win more people's love with its remarkable "sense of science and technology" and stable and high-quality "singing strength".

Not only is Luya a good singer, but Luya also plays an unexpected role. Although Luya is iFLYTEK's first AI virtual singer, it's not the first time iFLYTEK has done this to empower music with AI.

In 2019, iFLYTEK established an independent iFLYTEK music business line, and in 2021 Xunfei Music Brand held its first industry-wide conference. During this period, iFLYTEK Music used AI technology to judge music, such as judging rising space and trend in song promotion, or judging song plagiarism, music appreciation, creation, etc., and formed iFLYTEK Music's own model. In addition, they also use AI technology capabilities to empower the music market industry chain, such as copyright management, music market dynamics and singer information regulation, song promotion settlement and so on.

Luya, is another exploration attempt of iFLYTEK Music in the field of AI + music, which is different from doing music brand marketing, artist brokerage service, operation and so on before, the debut of Luya undoubtedly bears more mission of AI enabling music, and it will also explore and apply to deeper fields of music.

In other words, as an AI virtual singer, the significance and mission of Luya's debut is not only to show the outside world that she can sing well, but more importantly, she can make her own unique contribution to the development of the music field.

For example, the cooperation between Luya and Shanghai Conservatory of Music is a further exploration in the field of AI fusion music. With the learning and evolution of Luya in the upper tone, she will further extend from singing to AI-assisted lyrics, composition and other fields in the future. Together with the upper tone, she will make use of her ability to carry out fusion experiments of different types of music styles, such as using technical means to match songs with similar styles, disassembling chords and melodies, merging tracks, etc., so as to promote the innovation and expansion of music in basic theory and creation.

In short, such a virtual singer can provide huge possibility and imagination space for the collision between music and technology in the future. If music art is inserted into the wings of AI, there will be a new power of innovation, and the technology behind Luya will continue to evolve because of its deep combination with art, which is the spark of collision with each other.

Of course, for Luya, with a wonderful singing voice, full of vitality, fresh and lovely image, coupled with the powerful technology behind and the possibility of promoting the development of music art, these characteristics also make Luya have great potential to become a new generation of virtual idols.

And Luya itself also has a wealth of "human setting" elements, such as she is a cheerful, strange genius girl, the dream is to create a cool techs that makes everyone happy and happy. She also has a loyal companion lying down duck.

And Luya's musical talent and ability come from a mistake in a scientific and technological experiment. She and the lying duck are involved in a magical music space, which is full of music energy. Luya can convert music energy into energy and get happiness and happiness by singing and dancing bravely.

Understanding these stories will make Luya look more three-dimensional and have more affinity in front of the ordinary audience. Idols in reality are always flat, so we can only look from afar. Instead of saying that Luya will become a new generation of idols in the future, Luya will become a music partner with which all of us can communicate with her and share happiness with her at any time.

Finally, "meta-universe" has almost become a consensus about the future of science and technology, and "virtual man" is the basic element of meta-universe. The emergence of Luya also makes us further see what kind of existence and image "virtual singer" should be in the future meta-universe. The era of meta-universe is still a long way off, but Luya has used a virtual identity to bring us real happiness and feelings.

Conclusion in the story, Luya entered the magical music space that she called "Lutopia". From then on, she embarked on the growth journey of gathering vitality with music and bringing happiness and happiness to everyone.

Just like our expectation of AI technology, we hope that technology can create happiness and bring happiness for human beings. That's why Luya was born.

And her journey continues, what kind of works will Luya use to move us, and what kind of performance will surprise us? I believe that friends who know and like her singing will be full of expectations.

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