Soul App's Three New Features Unveiled at WAIC, exemplifying the Product Philosophy of "Synergic Model-application Interplay"

SHANGHAI, July 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- On July 4th, the 2024 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC 2024) officially opened. With this year\'s theme being \"Governing AI for Good and for All\", it concentrated on the three major sections of core technology, intelligent terminals, and application empowerment. Soul App, a leading social platform using AI technology, was invited to the exhibition to demonstrate several new AI features, including Digital Twin, Wake the Werewolf, and EchoVerse.

During the WAIC 2024 event, Soul presented its position with the theme of "Human Touch, Digital Heart", and especially launched three new products, "Digital Twin", "Wake the Werewolf" and "EchoVerse", which represents Soul's latest practice in the research of deep integration "AIGC + Social".

Among them, "Digital Twin" is dedicated to assisting users in creating virtual digital humans for efficient socializing. Users can authorize the platform to set the image and characteristics of the digital twin based on chat records and posting content in Soul\'s public domain scenes. In rich dimensions such as characters, images and voices, a digital twin can most faithfully reproduce a real person.

In accordance with interest-based communication, the Soul platform does not support the use of a person's real profile photos. Users create a virtual image through the avatar system and interact in the digital space. Now, with the release of the "digital twin" with private chat function, it not only helps users create a more ideal "other self", but also provides more personalized and diverse intelligent response recommendations, helping users break through the ice of socialization and improve the effectiveness of communication in social networks. Communication in assisting identity construction and cognitive decision-making. Additionally, the introduction of AI objects into the game interaction scenario “Waking the Werewolf” clearly demonstrates the multimodal interaction capabilities of a large model. In this scenario, users can select any combination of AI and real humans to initiate interactions and engage in real-world combat with AI entities with autonomous reasoning, speech, and camouflage”. "AI Game Companion" can also help players quickly adapt to the relatively high threshold and complex gameplay of the werewolf game, easily initiate communication, and enjoy a pleasant experience through real-time interaction more immersive.

Integrating AI capabilities into on-site scenarios, Soul has launched a new independent feature, “EchoVerse”. This function is positioned as a social platform for artificial intelligence. Users participate in virtual characters and exciting communications in real time, and can configure characters according to their liking to perform conversations in various styles. The symbol images can be generated by loading the text or loading the desired image. The platform offers several basic tones, and users can individually create and combine dedicated voices for characters to realize multimodal interactions.

Practice "Synergistic Application Model" interactions from social improvement to new human-machine interaction experiences In fact, Soul is a platform that began considering the application of AI to the social domain relatively early on, and since its launch in 2016, it has begun considering AI-centered infrastructure technologies and application implementation. For example, by running the intelligent recommendation engine "Ling Xi" based on the full-screen portrait on the user's device, the platform helps users find people with similar interests through a decentralized mechanism, and also realizes the establishment of multiple relationships and instant emotional feedback, which effectively improves the user experience. In addition, the NAWA platform engine allows users to create personalized avatars and scenes for immersive interactions.

In 2020, Soul began systematic research and development of AIGC, accumulating advanced capabilities in the fields of intelligent dialogue, image generation and voice technology, including voice generation, voice-generated music, and voice animation. In 2023, Soul launched its independently developed large-scale language SoulX model, which has the functions of signal induction, condition induction generation, context recognition, multi-modal understanding and other features, and can realize emotional interaction and positive emotions. In 2024, Soul's large voice generation model was launched, and the self-developed large voice model was officially upgraded. At this stage, Soul's large voice model encompasses the large voice generation model, the large speech recognition model, the large voice dialogue model, the large music generation model, and is capable of supporting functions such as real timbre generation, vocal DIY, multilingual. multi-emotional real-time switching and dialogue similar to a real person.

At present, the achieved multimodal interaction capabilities of Soul have been integrated into specific application scenarios, including Soul "AI Godan", Werewolf Awakening, Digital Twin and EchoVerse, which further realizes improvement and expansion in aspects such as interaction efficiency, interaction quality, interaction experience and interaction objects. The willingness of “users” to constantly engage in conversations and interactions with AI has already proven their acceptance of the experience provided by the platform. It also highlights the sustainability of Soul's emphasis on "model-app synergy," said Tao Ming, CTO of Soul App.

According to Tao Ming, artificial intelligence is like finding the right hammer to drive a nail. “Soul is one of the most popular internet platforms among young people in China, and it is a natural application environment and entry point for traffic. Its strength is in being able to understand the true needs of users in the field, and by using large-scale models it is also possible to get immediate feedback from users.