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>The wide range of applications of this technology suggests the creation of a new industrial field known as "human digitization." In Japan, where the labor shortage is particularly serious, technology that can preserve and utilize the skills and knowledge of talented human resources as digital avatars holds great potential as a solution to the labor shortage. However, careful consideration will be needed regarding ethical issues such as the misuse of digital avatars and issues with portrait rights.

>TOPPAN Corporation will begin offering its Digital Avatar Service on June 20, 2025. The Service creates an avatar in a digital space that realistically reproduces the appearance and voice of a living person and can converse as if the person were the real person.

>This service not only uses TOPPAN’s appearance reproduction technology and unique voice reproduction AI model to realistically reproduce a person’s appearance and voice, but also utilizes TOPPAN’s data management know-how to train AI to learn vast amounts of data about the person, allowing it to create an avatar that can converse as if it were the person.

This service enables interactive communication with more people through a person’s digital avatar... Furthermore, know-how can be utilized in the marketing field, enabling it to be accumulated and passed on as a corporate asset.

>Therefore, by combining the extensive knowledge that TOPPAN has cultivated in the use of generative AI with the technology and know-how to reproduce a person’s appearance in a digital space, we will begin offering a “Digital Avatar Service” that can create a realistic, interactive avatar that can converse as if it were the real person. This service can be used in sales negotiations in marketing and customer contact work, expanding the possibilities of corporate activities.

everything about the marketing side will need to comply to all of europe and japans privacy regulations, something fixed by partisia