{"id":88036,"date":"2019-02-21T01:22:24","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T09:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/chinese-news-station-unveils-worlds-first-female-ai-news-anchor"},"modified":"2019-02-21T01:22:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T09:22:24","slug":"chinese-news-station-unveils-worlds-first-female-ai-news-anchor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/chinese-news-station-unveils-worlds-first-female-ai-news-anchor","title":{"rendered":"Chinese news station unveils world\u2019s first female AI news anchor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinese-news-station-unveils-worlds-first-female-ai-news-anchor.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua has unveiled \u201cthe world\u2019s first female AI news anchor.\u201d The computer-generated journo will team up with Xinhua\u2019s existing male AI anchors at an upcoming series of political meetings in China.<\/p>\n<p>The virtual reporter, named Xin Xiaomeng, was developed by Xinhua, in conjunction with a search engine company called Sogou. Developers modeled her speech and mannerisms on Xinhua news anchor Qui Meng, and showed her off in a video released on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Xiaomeng is lifelike, blinking and adjusting her hands as she speaks into the camera. Save for some rigid mouth movement, she could pass for the real thing.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/452006-china-female-ai-anchor\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/452006-china-female-ai-anchor\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua has unveiled \u201cthe world\u2019s first female AI news anchor.\u201d The computer-generated journo will team up with Xinhua\u2019s existing male AI anchors at an upcoming series of political meetings in China. The virtual reporter, named Xin Xiaomeng, was developed by Xinhua, in conjunction with a search engine company called Sogou. Developers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":507,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/507"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}