In 2025, the Palace Museum will celebrate its centenary. This century is a century of physical protection - from escorting national treasures thousands of miles in the midst of war, to generations of craftsmen carefully repairing the "Five Bulls" painting inside the red wall, guarding the "body" of cultural relics and the tangible carrier on which civilization depends. This century is also a century of continuous evolution of inheritance methods. When the pointer of time points to the new century, the proposition of guarding has quietly extended: how to make the frozen history flow again in the digital age? How to make silent cultural relics speak again? How can a millennium civilization truly enter the hearts of the next generation? On December 29, 2025, the Palace Museum and Volcano Engine jointly launched the "Listen to Baby Speak" AI interactive podcast, providing a new answer for this century old protection. Empowered by technology, AI enables cultural relics to speak up, and a dialogue that transcends time and space is taking place. The core of empowering the hundred year history of the Forbidden City from passive listening to lectures to active creation is to safeguard it. The rare feat in the history of world cultural relic protection in the 1930s and 1940s - the southward migration of cultural relics, protected the roots of national culture from war. In the following decades, restoration, organization, and research have all revolved around the cultural relics themselves. However, true inheritance goes far beyond safely displaying objects in glass cabinets. The vitality of culture lies in whether it can resonate in the hearts of people in different eras, whether it can be understood, told, and recreated. Traditional museum education mainly relies on third-party explanations about cultural relics, and there is always a layer of knowledge "glass" between the audience and history. The emergence of the "Listen Baby Speak" project is breaking through this layer of "glass". The project has selected 30 cultural relics from the collection and created an unprecedented interactive mode based on the technical capabilities of the volcano engine bean bun model: users only need to simply follow and read, and AI can replicate their voices, generating cultural relic story videos that are "dubbed" by users themselves. Children can choose to become "little historians" or "little science popularizers", using their own voices to let the Jinou Yonggu Cup express their family and country's wishes, and let the Tongyin Lady Tushanzi express her ingenuity and ingenuity. The core breakthrough of this innovation lies in the essential evolution of cultural inheritance from "educational commentary" to "immersive interaction". In the past, knowledge was communicated; Now, the story is played and experienced. When a child hears their own voice transformed into a cultural relic, a profound emotional connection and identity immersion naturally occur. At this moment, technology is no longer just a display tool, but a bridge of empathy, eliminating the millennium gap in the resonance of sound. When general AI encounters vertical cultural and cultural cooperation, it is also a process of deep collision and mutual "cultivation" between technology and humanities. Combining cutting-edge AI interactive technology with the Forbidden City, which has a history of six hundred years and a hundred years, is itself a tense challenge. The biggest challenge lies in finding a precise balance between the historical rigor represented by the Forbidden City and the narrative fun needed for children. The technical team is facing various challenges in this regard. Firstly, it is the accuracy of content generation. Every script generated by AI must withstand historical scrutiny. This requires the model not only to have strong language generation ability, but also to deeply "learn" the authoritative cultural relics provided by the Forbidden City during training, ensuring that the output story framework is solid and the details are accurate. Secondly, it is the naturalness of the interactive experience. Children's interactions are full of unpredictability, and AI needs to have strong contextual understanding and flexible response abilities to make conversations smooth and natural, rather than mechanical question answering. In addition, the team also needs to consider the universality of technology implementation. The final H5 product needs to be lightweight and easy to operate, allowing any user to complete sound reproduction and story generation in just a few minutes. The technical complexity must be hidden behind the extremely simple interaction. Public information shows that the Doubao Sound Reproduction Model 2.0 behind the project has evolved from early sound imitation to possessing the ability for deep semantic understanding and emotional expression. The Doubao role-playing model is responsible for endowing AI with different narrative personalities. The collaboration between the two, through the button platform for intelligent agent arrangement, ultimately achieved a vivid and controllable narrative of cultural relics. In the Mid-Autumn Festival of 2025, the AIGC video "The Forbidden City Baby Reunion Night", which was jointly produced by the two sides, has made the cultural relics "move" under the moonlight, completing the visual activation. This time, 'Listening to Baby Speak' delves deeper into the auditory and interactive aspects, completing a leap from 'activation' to 'dialogue'. These two attempts together outline a clear path: AI technology is gradually moving from a peripheral tool for cultural relic display to a core link for cultural interpretation and inheritance. Guarding makes a hundred year echo become the future enlightenment. From the "wind and rain" of physical space to the exploration and innovation of the digital world, the core of the centennial protection of the Forbidden City remains consistent: to make the best heritage of Chinese civilization not only exist in the temple, but also live in the present and pass it on to the future. This AI podcast project is a deeper step taken by the Forbidden City on the path of "AI+culture". Compared to the previous "Palace Museum Baby Reunion Night" which focused on festive atmosphere and visual presentation, "Listening to Baby Talks" directly cuts into the core function of museums - education and dissemination of knowledge, exploring how to transform profound academic achievements into forms that young people enjoy. It not only solves the physical proposition of "how to keep cultural relics alive", but also the cultural proposition of "how to keep cultural relics alive". Looking towards the future, the Palace Museum has shown an open attitude of actively embracing technology. From early digital collection of cultural relics, to digital exhibition halls, and now to AI applications, every technological stage has its exploratory figure. The "Listen to Baby Speak" project not only explores innovative forms of children's cultural education at the content level, but also verifies the possibility of deep integration between "general artificial intelligence big models" and "vertical professional fields" at the technical level. This process is a retraining of technology to meet the rigorous requirements of the cultural field, and also a re expression of culture's vitality through the use of technology. It proves that AI is not an intruder in the field of cultural heritage, but can become an enabler of cultural inheritance through deep integration. The evolution from "making cultural relics come alive" to "making cultural relics speak", and then extending to the possible future of "making cultural relics communicate", reflects the continuous upgrading of museum communication concepts. Every intervention of technology is expanding the boundaries of cultural heritage, transforming cultural relics from static exhibits into interactive, dialogic, and co creating cultural partners. The profound significance of this transformation lies in transforming cultural inheritance from one-way knowledge transmission to two-way emotional connection and value recognition, allowing each participant to find their own cultural coordinates in interaction. The collaboration between the Volcano Engine and the Forbidden City, which serves as the cultural heritage and social responsibility of future technology enterprises, is a vivid reflection of how technology companies fulfill their cultural heritage and social responsibility through innovative technologies. By using AIGC to create a "Hundred Scenes of Intangible Cultural Heritage," traditional skills can be visualized; Collaborate with Peking University to establish a "Classics and Ancient Books" platform, enabling digital reading and intelligent organization of tens of thousands of ancient books; Using digital activation technology to restore ancient theater buildings, creating a 'virtual live streaming room', and revitalizing traditional theater in digital space... Every attempt is a response to the era's proposition of 'how technology empowers culture'. The 'Listen to Baby Speak' project means that this exploration path has entered a deeper level - from digital preservation of cultural heritage to creative transformation and dissemination of its intrinsic value. It attempts to solve not only 'how to keep cultural relics alive', but also 'how to make the spirit carried by cultural relics live into the hearts of the next generation'. It symbolizes that in the era of technology, we have new tools to complete that millennium long dialogue; Symbolizing cultural inheritance, it can transform from one-way indoctrination to two-way interaction and co creation; It symbolizes that the traditional cultural enlightenment of children facing the future can be so natural, friendly, and full of fun. When cold cultural relics are endowed with warm sounds, when thick history lightly touches children's hearts through game like interactions, and when ancient cultural relics use the latest technology to emit their own "new voice" in children's ears, what we see is not only the birth of an innovative product, but also a path of traditional and modern, cultural and technological integration and new life. It is a cultural relay baton that spans a hundred years and is being steadily transmitted in an unprecedented way. Perhaps this is the most profound and touching cultural romance that technology has bestowed upon this era. It is the century old protection of the Forbidden City, which, with the help of AI, has written a new chapter of "letting cultural relics speak out and letting civilization continue to write". (New Society)