shiona mccallum, bbc news, - them fall like dominoes. shiona mccallum, bbc news, berlin. .hink of that story. before i go let's turn our attention to portugal because this is a country on track for its best year of tourism on record. more than 8 million foreign tourists visited the country in the first half of the year, more than the first half of 2019 which was its best ever year before covid completely wiped out the global travel industry. we can speak to a tourism ministerfor portugal. thank minister for portugal. thank you ministerfor portugal. thank you forjoining us here on bbc news and we appreciate your time. i must say, though, isit in this chair every single we have been beaming pictures of wildfires across the iberian peninsula and beyond, greece, et cetera, to the rest of the world. temperatures this summer have reached a0 degrees where you are. firefighters battle to contain wildfires. how confident are you that the performance we have seen in the tourism sector in the first half of the year will be replicated into the future? good morning. thank you for the in

# watch them fall, domi—dominoes...# shiona mccallum, bbc news, berlin.d up and freezing cold on a beach in north wales. tally, as she's become known, is thought to have been swept 4,000 miles across the atlantic by strong currents. now she's back in warmer climes after a major rescue back home in texas and straight back in the water. tally can truly be described as a well—travelled turtle and an extremely lucky one, too. alive today, thanks to the kindness of strangers. this is her incredible story. it was two years ago that the turtle was found washed up in north wales, named tally after talacre beach, where she was spotted by a dog walker. my dog was making a bit of a fuss over what i thought was a pile of seaweed and then walked over and obviously saw that it was a turtle. initially thought that it was dead — unfortunately but still thought it's a bit weird for a turtle to be in wales on talacre beach. i don't see many turtles walking the dog usually. the experts at anglesey sea zoo were called in to try to nurse tally back to health, but there was no

shiona mccallum's been to berlin to find out. meet noonoouri.an instagram influencer and has worked with big fashion brands. her appearance has been created using 2d graphics and motion capture. now she has a record deal backed by a major label. oh, my god. this is amazing. it's like, really like it was accelerating my pulse when i got the email from warner music central europe is writing me and they were like asking me, are you interested in music? and i say, well, what a question. her voice has been created with the help of artificial intelligence. they pitched it higher. of course they made it more female. but we didn't want to create like a human voice. we wanted to have it a bit like technology, like a bit tech voice. so the bass and the original voice of her is my voice. and to make this sound, they got a singer involved, too. there comes the moment where we use a.i. technology. the voice from the singer we needed to know when he was singing high. when he was singing low, when he was singing slower. when he got more speed, when he got more

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but now, that company is working with a very different kind of artist, and shiona mccallum has been toto find out more. this is noonoouri. she's a virtual character, an instagram influencer, and has worked with fashion brands and celebrities. and she's the brainchild ofjoerg zuber. well, noonoouri is a lifetime project for myself. i created her in my mind first — i did a little sketch of her. and so, this was the idea, the original idea of noonoouri. noonoouri's appearance has been created using computer generated 2d graphics and motion capture. it uses a lot of manpower, so we were, at this time, like, five people in my studio and we started, like, the hair, the drawings of the — of the fabric, the movement and everything and i slipped into a motion capture suit to walk as her to define her movements, her gestures and everything, but i couldn't find an investor. everybody said like, "no. "this is not really working. "we don't want to have digital things and nobody would listen "to a digital character." and the more noes i got, the stronger she grew. tell me about the record deal with

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shiona mccallum's been to berlin to find out. meet noonoouri.h big fashion brands. her appearance has been created using 2d graphics and motion capture. now this avatar has a record deal backed by a major label. oh, my god. this is amazing. it's like, really like it was accelerating my pulse when i got the email from warner music central europe is writing me and they were like asking me, are you interested in music? and i say, well, what a question. her voice has been created with the help of artificial intelligence. they pitched it higher. of course they made it more female. but we didn't want to create like a human voice. we wanted to have it a bit like technology, like a bit tech voice. so the bass and the original voice of her is my voice. and to make this sound, they got a singer involved, too. there comes the moment where we use a.i. technology. the voice from the singer we needed to know when he was singing high. when he was singing low, when he was singing slower. when he got more speed, when he got more pressure. warner music is releasi

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shiona mccallum's been to berlin to find out. meet noonoouri.ith big fashion brands. her appearance has been created using 2d graphics and motion capture. now this avatar has a record deal backed by a major label. oh, my god! this is amazing. it was accelerating my pulse when i got the email from warner music central europe is writing me and they were like asking me, are you interested in music? and i say, well, what a question. her voice has been created with the help of artificial intelligence. they pitched it higher. of course they made it more female. but we didn't want to create like a human voice. we wanted to have it a bit like technology, like a bit tech voice—y. so the bass and the original voice of her is my voice. and to make this sound, they got a singer involved too. there comes the moment where we used ai technology. the voice from the singer, we needed to know when he was singing high, when he was singing low, when he was singing slower, when he got more speed, when he got more pressure. warner music is releasing the first single.

shiona mccallum's been to berlin to find out. meet noonoouri.encer and has worked with big fashion brands. her appearance has been created using 2d graphics and motion capture. oh, my god. this is amazing. it's like, really like it was accelerating my pulse when i got the email from warner music. the email from warner music central europe is writing me and they were like asking me, are you interested in music? and i say, well, what a question. her voice has been created with the help of artificial intelligence. they pitched it higher. of course they made it more female. but we didn't want to create like a human voice. we wanted to have it a bit like technology, like a bit tech voice. so the bass and the original voice of her is my voice. and to make this sound, they got a singer involved, too. there comes the moment where we use a.i. technology. the voice from the singer we needed to know when he was singing high. when he was singing low, when he was singing slower. when he got more speed, when he got more pressure. warner music is releasing the

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