If this beauty goes to a restaurant to eat, does her own dubbing without scanning the QR code, and receives xx yuan in Alipay, will the boss believe her?

"Alipay receives xx yuan", if If you often use Alipay to check out when shopping, you must be familiar with this soft female voice.

In the past few days, the girl who voices Alipay has suddenly become famous!

Last Saturday, a post titled "I was seduced by a girl with electric eyes at the annual meeting" went viral on Alibaba's intranet. The electric-eyed girl in the post is the girl who voices Alipay.

In fact, this sweet-looking girl has several unique skills. She is not only a designer for Ant, but also a voice actor for Alipay transfers. She is worthy of the name "You can obviously make a living based on your looks, but you rely on your talent."

The voice actress behind Alipay transfer is a Taiwanese girl

She is often joked by colleagues to imitate Lin Chiling

Last Friday, more than 40,000 Alibaba employees gathered at Huanglong Sports Center to participate The largest annual meeting in Alibaba’s history. On the big screen on the annual meeting stage, the cameraman scanned the face of a young girl in the audience several times. She held up a sign saying "Ali is awesome", had wavy long hair, and charming big eyes.

After more than two years of preparation and expansion, Ant Financial has become a full-service financial group. At present, Ant Financial has been involved in many business fields such as payment, micro-lending, funds, insurance, financial management, and credit reporting. It owns credit products such as Ant Huabei, Ant Borrowing, Yijie Bank, and Renren Zhaocai, among which Yijie Bank and Renren Zhaocai have the largest number of users. You can apply for this in Huixin. The limit is higher than that of Huabei. The minimum is 20,000 and the maximum is 150,000. In addition, emerging Internet business formats, including MYBank and Sesame Credit, have also been under preparation and testing since the beginning of 2015.

The next day, a popular post appeared on Alibaba’s intranet. The engineer who posted said: "I was watching the big screen at the annual meeting, and suddenly I was attracted by a young lady's electric eyes... I believe I am not alone!!"

From last Saturday to today, this hot thread continues to be popular. It occupies the top three positions on Alibaba’s intranet. In the comments below, many people directly called the girl an Alipay celebrity, and some people left messages saying that they wanted to come to the Alipay building to take a photo.

The girl’s nickname is Zhanyan. She is a Taiwanese girl. She officially joined Ant Financial after graduating from university last year. She is currently a designer in the basic experience design team of Ant Financial’s Alipay Division. Because she became an internal Internet celebrity overnight, Zhanyan's tags in Alibaba's internal personal tag system also exploded from the original dozen to thirty or forty. For example, the tag with the most likes is "I love Taiwanese girls". Click There are nearly 200 likes. There are also some particularly interesting tags, such as "Brother is married and just comes here to do aesthetics" and so on.

In addition to her role as a designer, Zhanyan is the "Queen" voice actress (i.e. voice actor) for Alipay transfers.

“The voiceover for Alipay transfers happened a few months ago. The main reasons for deciding to use the voice function when transferring money were firstly to make it easier for merchants to collect money, and also to take into account the actual needs of people with visual impairments. " Zhan Yan said that when visiting merchants to optimize products and designs, they found that many merchants did not have time to look at their mobile phones when collecting payments. "For example, the owner of Jianbing cannot stop what he is doing to look at his mobile phone. "

Because. The Taiwanese pronunciation of soft and waxy is very pleasant. Within Alipay, Zhanyan has long been an "Internet celebrity" with a voice, and often wears multiple hats, such as guest female anchor during live broadcasts and female host at department annual meetings. She is often joked by her colleagues to imitate Lin Chiling, and every time she imitates, people are always stunned.

So there was almost no objection. When Alipay decided to dub transfers, they directly approached Zhanyan for a trial recording. "We tried recording it several times, and everyone felt that the tone and pronunciation were very suitable, so the matter was settled."

Zhanyan said that although it was a short sentence, it was intended to make the user listen It is more comfortable. The voice copy of the transfer has been changed many times. For example, Alipay was used to "collect" at the beginning, and later was changed to "receive", etc. The sentences were also shortened repeatedly. Currently, Zhanyan is also responsible for the dubbing of other Alipay voices.

"Now whenever there are some new scenes that require voice acting, I will participate in the recording. Basically, I will record it once every two weeks, for about half an hour at a time." Zhanyan said.

What’s interesting is that sometimes when I’m eating with my colleagues and paying the bill, I’m jokingly asked to use Alipay’s voice to remind my boss to collect the money. Sometimes my boss can recognize me.

Behind SIRI is an American aunt

Dubbing for artificial intelligence has become a popular profession

In July 2005, a woman named Susan· Susan Bennett's Middle-Aged American Women did intensive recordings for over a month, and then again for four months of additional recordings in 2011 and 2012. After the recording is completed, technicians use computers to extract the sounds and rewrite them into new phrases and sentences. This is how Apple's iPhone voice assistant Siri was born.

For a long time, Susan herself did not realize that the voice on the mobile phone she used every day was her own, until one of her friends recognized her voice while playing with her iPhone.

If Susan is one of the first humans to dub artificial intelligence, in recent years with the rise of artificial intelligence, voice acting has become a popular profession.

In July this year, Alibaba launched the smart speaker "Tmall Genie X1" at a press conference at the Beijing Time Museum. Prior to this, Alibaba Artificial Intelligence Laboratory sent a special invitation letter to the media: a black flat disc with the words "The future is here as soon as you open it" printed on it and equipped with a button that when pressed It will make a gentle female voice: "I am here, you say".

This girl who was carefully selected from more than 100 girls is named Yuying. Yuying is also the voice actress of Tmall Elf. However, until the rehearsal for the Tmall Elf press conference on July 4, Yuying didn’t know what she was dubbing. "I just feel like Siri, Taobao's little secretary, because there are texts such as express delivery information and weather inquiries. I saw the Tmall Elf text at that time, but I didn't know what it was."

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In order to extract the fragments from the original sound and synthesize them through a splicing algorithm, a large amount of data is required. Tmall Genie's voice recording took up to two months before and after its release, and as of early August, more than 200,000 words had been recorded. The overall goal of Tmall Elf is to reach 20,000 sentences and 300,000 words.

After reading this, do you want to hear the sound of Alipay payment?