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Microsoft Research Institute, creator of the Hidden Markov statistical model, developer of the Kaldi speech recognition toolkit.

Johns Hopkins University, Associate Professor at the Center for Language and Speech Processing.

’This guy is a goddamn legend in the field of artificial intelligence!’

It was only then that the media and fans realized that the middle-aged, bespectacled man on stage, who seemed a bit socially awkward, actually had such an incredible background.

”Is that for real?”

”He’s not an actor they hired from Hengdian, is he?”

”If you search online, you can actually find news about Daniel Povey. The man is a real, top-tier AI expert.”

The reporters and fans were chattering in small groups. After confirming Daniel’s identity and academic achievements, they grew excited.

The reporters were thrilled; they had found another hot news story.

The fans, on the other hand, felt that the influence of the Moss voice interaction engine and the Moss Smart Speaker had been seriously underestimated.

As Daniel reached his final sentence, he looked at Chen Yansen with a serious expression and said, ”Since coming to China, my technical skills have grown rapidly, mainly due to the influence of my boss. His abilities in speech recognition, natural language processing, and speech synthesis far surpass my own. In my heart, he is my mentor and my godfather.”

Zhou Chuangxi was momentarily stunned. He subconsciously glanced at Daniel, his eyes asking, ’That’s a bit too flattering. Should I translate it?’

Seeing Zhou Chuangxi remain silent, Daniel pursed his lips, urging him on.

Zhou Chuangxi ignored him and turned his gaze to the big boss.

Chen Yansen gave an almost imperceptible shake of his head, signaling to Zhou Chuangxi not to translate that last part.

After receiving the instruction, Zhou Chuangxi took the microphone from Daniel and began discussing the development of speech analysis and recognition tools, moving on to the difficulties of natural language processing and speech synthesis technologies.

At the same time, he briefly introduced his own background.

A young computer prodigy from Huake University, a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from UIUC, proficient in computer vision, image processing, and speech recognition technologies, and a student of the ’Father of Computer Vision’ from the Lighthouse Country.

The audience listened, dumbfounded. And most of the two hundred-plus people in Orange Technology’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory possessed similarly outstanding talents.

This was an ultra-luxurious team composed of the world’s top artificial intelligence experts. No wonder the Alexa Smart Speaker, priced at 199 US Dollars, could achieve terrifying sales of two million units in the European and American Markets.

Chen Yansen’s marketing strategy was cut from the same cloth as the tactics used by brands like Good Memory Star, 8848 phones, and Xiao Guan Cha.

Xiao Guan Cha brought together eight tea masters, while the Moss (Alexa) Smart Speaker brought together over two hundred AI experts.

Is 799 yuan expensive?

This is the fruit of the labor of AI experts!

The method was cliché, but the effect was powerful.

Before the press conference was even over, columnists from platforms like Huxiu, iHeima, Toutiao, Sohu, Penguin, and NetEase were already publishing lavish, detailed articles with text and images about Orange Technology’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the Moss Smart Speaker.

”AI Legend Daniel Povey and Orange Technology: The World’s First Smart Speaker!”

”Top Lighthouse Country Scientist Daniel Povey: ’Chen Yansen is my mentor, my godfather!’”

”Raking in 400 Million US Dollars Overseas, the Alexa Smart Speaker Shouldn’t Be Ignored!”

Netizens flocked to leave comments. Some users who had purchased the Moss Smart Speaker commented: ”The performance of the Moss Smart Speaker doesn’t match its price. It deserves to be sold for more!”

”Why buy a speaker? Just buy the Orange C3!”

”Orange Mobile Phones are getting more and more expensive. The next new model will probably be over 3,000 yuan!”

”I guess you’re just ignoring the existence of the Orange C1, Orange D1, and Qingcheng D1S?”

”Hurry to the official Orange Mall website! The sales links for the Orange C3 and Qingcheng D1S are up!”

At 4:00 PM, both the official Orange Technology Weibo account and Chen Yansen’s Weibo account reposted the new product launch poster for the Orange Mobile Phone.

The comment sections were instantly flooded with curious netizens.