Startup Skelter Labs to Create AI Chatbot for Actress Juhyun Young

Actor Juhyun Young.
Photo by Skelter Labs

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Jong-hwa] AI startup Skelter Labs announced on the 31st that it will unveil an AI chatbot of actress Joo Hyun-young.

The chatbot development is a collaboration among four companies: Skelter Labs, Ace Story, AIMC, and Neosapience. Through mutual partnership, the four companies will combine their respective ▲technology ▲content ▲business capabilities.

'AI Joo Hyun-young' is a chatbot that integrates celebrity, content, voice synthesis technology, and natural language processing. By adding natural language processing and chatbot functions, it not only resembles actress Joo Hyun-young's appearance and speech style but also enables real-time communication. This signifies the potential to overcome the 'Uncanny Valley' by combining AI technology with Joo Hyun-young's charm. The Uncanny Valley refers to the discomfort people feel when robots that resemble humans become increasingly sophisticated.

The four companies plan to launch celebrity AI equipped with more perfect voice and natural language processing (NLP), starting with video and voice chatbots featuring actress Joo Hyun-young's voice and AI. They also intend to build business models that can apply celebrity AI and jointly develop new businesses.

Kim Tae-soo, CEO of Neosapience, said, "We plan to create AI Joo Hyun-young by integrating voice synthesis technology capable of advanced emotion and vocal style adjustment, foreign language voice synthesis technology that can control fluency, and video synthesis technology that can reproduce appearance," adding, "We hope AI Joo Hyun-young will be loved by the MZ generation just like the real actress Joo Hyun-young."

Cho Won-kyu, CEO of Skelter Labs, said, "We are pleased that our voice recognition and natural language understanding technologies form the foundation for developing celebrity AI capable of natural conversation," and added, "Through cooperation among the four companies, we will launch various additional services within this year."

Ace Story is a global comprehensive content studio, AIMC is a subsidiary of Ace Story and the agency of actress Joo Hyun-young. Neosapience operates the AI virtual actor service 'Typecast,' and Skelter Labs is a leading startup in conversational AI technology.

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