{"id":46265,"date":"2025-09-30T05:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T05:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/46265\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T05:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T05:25:08","slug":"seoul-subways-voice-to-be-replaced-by-ai-as-voice-actor-battles-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/46265\/","title":{"rendered":"Seoul subway\u2019s voice to be replaced by AI, as voice actor battles cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SEOUL &#8211; The familiar voice heard in Seoul\u2019s subway system will be replaced by artificial intelligence (AI) after the voice actress who has recorded announcements for 29 years stepped down as she receives treatment for cancer, Seoul Metro said on Sept 29.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Voice actress Kang Hee-sun had long voiced a total of 26 types of Korean-language automated announcements to enhance clarity. Ms Kang is also recognised as the Korean voice of Shin-chan\u2019s mother in the Japanese animated series Crayon Shin-chan. She resigned from that role in August because of her illness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">\u201cIt is sometimes not possible to update recorded announcements due to the health of the voice actor. Therefore, a more stable announcement system is needed,\u201d Seoul Metro said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The new system will use AI text-to-speech technology, which Seoul Metro said is more stable, allows faster updates of station names and sounds as natural as a human voice, all while reducing costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">AI-based announcements are already in use on the Shinbundang, Sillim and Gimpo Gold lines. THE KOREA HERALD\/ASIA NEWS NETWORK<\/p>\n<p>South KoreaArtificial IntelligenceAI\/artificial intelligence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEOUL &#8211; The familiar voice heard in Seoul\u2019s subway system will be replaced by artificial intelligence (AI) after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":["post-46265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}