‘News Brain’: an AI solution to create video reports from news articles
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Hakuhodo DY Media Partners Inc and OPEN8 Inc. announced that they would begin offering NEWS BRAIN, a one-stop news-video creation solution that handles summaries and audio based on newspaper articles.
How AI-powered News Brain creates ‘news videos’
When NEWS BRAIN uploads articles, it automatically creates summaries and read-out audio files.
It is also an automated news video creation solution that combines AI support with news photos and videos to produce a single video with stories.
It was developed by combining ASSS, an article summarization speech system developed jointly by Hakuhodo DY Media Partners Inc and Tokyo University of Science, with VIDEO BRAIN, a video editing cloud that can create videos supported by AI using only texts, still images, videos, and other materials owned by OPEN8 Inc.
The created news movie can be distributed to a wide range of channels, including digital signage and official SNS owned by newspapers, including the digital version of newspaper.
In addition to contributing to the expansion of contact points with consumers that could not have been reached by newspaper, the company says that by greatly improving the efficiency of its video editing operations, it will be able to provide even faster media coverage.
As the first step, the company plans to introduce the system at The Chugoku Shimbun (regional newspaper in Chugoku area of Japan). In November 2019, the 2 companies signed a business alliance to continuously provide solutions utilizing technology to support the digital transformation of newspapers.
The company says it will work to maximize media value by supporting the use of its services at newspaper companies.
Original Text: https://ampmedia.jp/2020/01/27/news-brain/