**Estsoft launches ‘Bilingual AI TOEIC Speaking Instructor’ with YBM… Koreaâ??s first Korean-English simultaneous AI virtual human TOEIC speaking lecture first held this month**
*The first AI virtual human in the domestic education industry capable of bilingual speech*
Estsoft (CEO Jeong Sang-won), a company specializing in AI services, announced on the 16th that it had launched an ‘AI TOEIC Speaking Instructor’ that can speak both Korean and English simultaneously with YBM (CEO Moon-ho Huh), a company specializing in foreign language education.
The AI â??â??TOEIC speaking instructor launched this time is a replica of YBM’s representative TOEIC instructor, Instructor Park Hye-won, and is the first AI virtual human in the domestic education industry capable of bilingual speech.
The two companies expect that the technology will help provide quality education services and further maximize learning effects, as a digital learning environment optimized for foreign language learning has been implemented with the introduction of AI virtual humans capable of bilingualism.
AI TOEIC Speaking Instructor was born from Estsoft’s ‘AI Studio Perso’. The service, which supports AI virtual human production and operation, provides users with a differentiated experience through â?²high lip sync rate, â?²natural movement of the upper body, and â?²providing front and side images.
‘AI Clone’ technology was applied to the production of AI TOEIC instructors. It is a technology developed by Estsoft to replicate an existing person as an AI virtual human. The AI â??â??clone is equipped with advanced voice generation (TTS) and face generation (STF) AI, which perfectly reproduces not only the appearance of Instructor Park Hye-won, but also the unique tone and gestures of Korean and English.
The video and audio data required for production were secured from a studio prepared inside the office building by Estsoft with the highest level of specifications in Korea for super-advanced AI virtual human. In this studio, it is possible to secure and extract high-quality, refined data that can handle up to 8K, the highest quality at present.
The AI â??â??TOEIC instructor will debut this month. The AI â??â??human online class ‘VTKL’, which will be newly introduced at YBM, will be the stage. The subject is TOEIC Speaking, and AI TOEIC Speaking instructor lectures on contents prepared by instructor Park Hye-won, who is the number one in the country in the number of YBM TOEIC students.
Moonho Huh, CEO of YBM, said, â??I am very happy to be able to introduce an AI TOEIC speaking instructor capable of bilingual speech with Estsoftâ??s world-class AI virtual human technology for the first time in the domestic education industry.â? We will continue active cooperation with Estsoft in various fields so that we can go out.â?
Estsoft CEO Jung Sang-won said, â??In the educational area where technology acceptance is relatively difficult, providing AI virtual humans for the purpose of producing educational services beyond providing simple information to YBM, a leading education company in Korea, is a very surprising achievement that proves the effectiveness of technology. â??We will do our best to strengthen our cooperative relationship with YBM in the future to introduce another innovative education service that combines AI.â? â??The year 2023 will be the first year that Estsoftâ??s high-quality AI virtual human service, which is immediately used in industrial settings, will be provided in earnest to domestic and foreign markets.â?
Meanwhile, the virtual human market, which ESTsoft is promoting as a new AI business, has great growth potential and is attracting attention worldwide. Global market research firm Imagin Research predicted that the global virtual human market would grow to $527.58 billion (about 700 trillion won) by 2030.
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