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Chapter 884 Jobs, Gates and Hatsune Miku

"I'm about to vomit blood..."

Gates lay down in front of the computer, and then rolled his face over the keyboard... Well, this feels really good.

When he himself was playing "Magic World" with others, there was a true ancestral female magician named Erquette. The other person's favorite thing to say was "I am rolling my face on the keyboard..."

But at this time, Gates discovered that it turned out to be a good idea...

"Be patient, we haven't made much progress in character modeling. Our plan has just begun. There are always opportunities..."

Steve Jobs was also scratching his head.

Unknowingly, half of the hundreds of thousands of dollars originally obtained have been spent, but what comes next is much more difficult than Gates imagined.

Speech synthesis is not that simple. At this time, Gates was almost made to vomit blood by this technology.

When developing for those Soviet spies, Gates used hardware methods, but now, he needs pure software technology.

Speech synthesis requires the ability to convert any text information into standard and smooth speech in real time, which is equivalent to installing an artificial mouth on the machine. It involves multiple disciplines and technologies such as acoustics, linguistics, digital signal processing, computer science, etc. It is the Chinese

A cutting-edge technology in the field of information processing, the main problem solved is how to convert text information into audible sound information, that is, to make the machine speak like a human.

The text-to-speech system that Gates previously thought about can actually be regarded as an artificial intelligence system.

In order to synthesize high-quality language, in addition to relying on various rules, including semantic rules, lexical rules, and phonetic rules, you must also have a good understanding of the content of the text, which also involves the issue of natural language understanding.

The figure below shows a complete schematic diagram of the text-to-speech conversion system. The text-to-speech conversion process is to first convert the text sequence into a phonological sequence, and then the system generates a speech waveform based on the phonological sequence.

The first step involves linguistic processing, such as word segmentation, word-to-sound conversion, etc., as well as a set of effective prosody control rules; the second step requires advanced speech synthesis technology, which can synthesize high-quality speech streams in real time as required. Therefore, generally speaking

In the past, text-to-speech conversion systems required a complex set of conversion programs from text sequences to phoneme sequences. In other words, text-to-speech conversion systems not only had to apply digital signal processing technology, but also had to be supported by a large amount of linguistic knowledge.

The reason why the progress is so slow is that Gates' funds are already stretched thin. He urgently needs a sum of funds to maintain his research. You know, Gates has already spent all his efforts on his own small company, leaving him to continue.

If we hire people again, Gates' small company will completely collapse in two months at most.

But this plan is a bottomless pit. First of all, a lot of experts are needed. The so-called linguistics is just the beginning.

The theoretical basis of speech synthesis is a mathematical model of speech generation. The speech generation process of this model is that under the stimulation of an excitation signal, sound waves pass through the resonant cavity (vocal tract) and radiate sound waves from the mouth or nose. Therefore, the vocal tract parameters, vocal tract resonance

Characteristics have always been the focus of research. Traditionally, the poles in the frequency response of the vocal tract are called formants, and the distribution characteristics of the formant frequencies (pole frequencies) of speech determine the timbre of the speech.

The voice of the sound color has different resonance peak modes. Therefore, with the frequency of each resonance peak and its bandwidth as a parameter, it can constitute the resonance peak filter. Then use the combination of several filters to simulate the transmission characteristics of the channel's transmission characteristics

(Frequency response), modulate the signal issued by the incentive source, and then get the synthetic voice through the radiation model.

And establishing a mathematical model is not a high school student to do it. This requires at least college students to have knowledge in this area.

"Is it not good to do it?" The sound of the next thing seemed to feel the same mistake.

"Ah ... it's not like this, it's just a little technical problem ..."

The sound source itself is perfect, but in terms of voice synthesis, Gates found that this matter is much more difficult than what he wants to achieve.

Gates regretted that he invited the other party to come from the beginning. Now it seems that he should leave only one contact information at that time, and then wait until later.

Izhi felt a little panicked.

"It's better to think about us from another angle. What kind of role should we build?"

At this time, Jobs put forward a different view.

"What kind of character to build?"

"Well, this ... Well, it should be a cute woman ... The words of men are always less charm, and the sound is already our sound source."

"Then, it is the most important question -how do we make money, and how do we sell and sell our characters? We get the source of investment, and it comes from this."

Jobs began to calmly analyze.

"We can make this character into an idol, a popular idol ... no, even we can develop an electronic song with this idol as a sound source, read e -book software!"

When Gates said that his plan was, it was the Tao.

"But say, what is our character?" Gates muttered back and asked.

And Jobs also stunned.

This does not seem to be so simple.

The sound of the next side was tilted, as if it seemed to have thought of something.

"Hatsune Miku ... very good!" Jobs shined in front of Jobs.

Having said that, although this is a kind of sound, it is almost not available.

At this time, Yinwu felt that this name was used for this character that had not been born, but it was just right.

"Hatsune Miku? Japanese name? But the surprise is very nice!" Gates felt very good.

This name is good!

"But what does this name mean?" Jobs didn't understand Japanese.

"Hatsune, we can immediately be the first sound, the meaning of the starting point. In the future, the meaning is 'Future'. Our role can be understood as the first virtual singer in the world ... represents the world

The future ... "

Really, this is just someone's bad taste for his own art name? It seems that Miss Edson, who seemed to be famous in the school district. But such a bad art name, why did he come up with such great meaning?

"Good-Job!"

This sentence is also the mantra of Elquet on the Internet, and Gates used it.

"Then we are looking for investors." Jobs thought.

“What about Microsoft?”

Although he formed an anti-Microsoft alliance, Gates withdrew from the alliance after starting his own company. Now the alliance is supported by a group of children who have their own dreams and ideals. They are tenacious and unyielding.

Fighting against the evil OSS of Microsoft... Although we have been defeated repeatedly...

At this time, the traitor Bill Gates first thought of Microsoft. If it was Microsoft, it seemed good to convince the other party...

"But Microsoft won't be able to give us much support, right? Although our product technology requirements are not high, we often have to rely on the computing power of the North American Computer Center for help, right?"

"That's true..." If the other party is just investing, that's okay, but Gates still has a lot of things that have not been implemented technically. At this time, if the other party proposes to intervene in Gates' company, this will

There is no way for Bian to object. Otherwise, what should I do if the other party says: If you don’t intervene, you won’t pay?

Although they want to trick investors, if it is Microsoft, there is no way to trick them, right?

"Well... Speaking of which, I do have a method..."

Jobs thought for a while and then said this.

"Please use tea." At this time, Otonashi, who was watching the two people discussing, made tea and came over.

"Thanks……"

After taking the tea, Jobs continued: "Why don't we create some news? Then we won't be looking for investors, but investors will be looking for us. If we can do this, we can make our own choices."

Investors..."

This is a great method! Gates’ eyes lit up.

But then thinking about it, Gates shook his head: "In this case, wouldn't our creativity be known to others? If others know it, what will we do next?"

Jobs convinced Gates with just one word: "Patents."

Yes, you can apply for a patent first!

As long as we have a patent, wouldn't it be fine?

After all, the two of them are still too young and do not understand the cruelty of society. They do not know that if their strength is not enough, patents will not be able to help them.

This is also partly the reason why Catherine's integrated circuit patents were directly licensed at no charge.

"Let's figure out the character image first. We must get this done first. If so, we can use this image to make investments..."

"Arnold... I think Mina-san should be able to find a startup fund, right?"

At this time, Otonashi thought of something.

"Entrepreneurship fund?" Jobs seemed to have something in mind.

"That venture capital?" Gates seemed to see something deeper.

"The entrepreneurial fund under Quantum Fund may also be an option..." Jobs thought it was good.

It’s just that he seemed to have misunderstood something. The Venture Fund is not under the Quantum Fund, but because Soros is also in charge, many people have misunderstood it.

"But if you are looking for venture capital...well, I understand, no matter what, let's try it first and look for various methods. Although venture capital has risks, venture capital will eventually withdraw all the shares...

..." Although Gates knows that most of the other parties' investments are in energy companies, they are still venture companies after all. And if they don't accept it, there should be other venture companies.

It's just that Gates doesn't seem to know that so far, most of the companies invested by venture funds have ended up being acquired by Catherine...

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The third update is completed, I have been holding back this chapter...

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