China's state press agency has unveiled a virtual newsreader designed to deliver headlines 24 hours a day.
中國國家新聞機構(gòu)推出了虛擬的新聞播報員，一天24小時都能播送新聞。

Xinhua's “artificial intelligence news anchor” is a lifelike digitised reporter which can read out text by mimicking the image and voice of a real human presenter.
新華社的這款“AI合成主播”是真人合成的記者，通過模仿真人主持人的形象和聲音來念新聞。

The agency claims the virtual presenter – a realistic-looking man, sharply dressed in a suit – “can read texts as naturally as a professional news anchor”.
新華社稱這款虛擬主播，形象逼真，穿著得體的西裝“，能夠和專業(yè)的新聞主播一樣，非常自然的播報新聞”。

However, the AI newsreader's debut report on Thursday revealed a robotic voice and awkward delivery.
不過，在周四的AI主播首秀上，播報的聲音還是很機械，聽起來并不自然。

“Hello, you are watching English news programme. I'm AI anchor in Beijing,” the presenter said at the beginning of its first English-language broadcast.
“大家好，您正在收看的是英語新聞頻道。我是AI主播，在北京為你播報?！痹谟⒄Z節(jié)目播報開始時主持人這樣說道。

In an introductory video, it said: “I will work tirelessly to keep you informed as texts will be typed into my system uninterrupted.”
在介紹視頻中，他說；“新聞將會持續(xù)不斷的進入我的系統(tǒng)，我也會不知疲倦地向大家播報新聞。”

The technology synthesises the human presenter's speech, lip movements and facial expressions. It was developed jointly by Xinhua and Chinese search engine Sogou.
這項技術(shù)合成了真人主播的播報，唇部動作，面部表情。它是由新華社和搜狗引擎共同開發(fā)完成。

（翻譯：林潯鷗）