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>Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 21:44:28 -0600
>Subject: talking sims
>From: Bob Peckham <[log in to unmask]>
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>Thread-Topic: talking sims
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I wish I could remember the term, but there are talking animated figures
(sims) that you see on some web sites which will talk if you type in a
message. Questions:

1) What are they called?

2) Do they exist trained to read languages other than English?

3) Any hints on where I could find them?

TBob

Robert D. Peckham, Ph.D.
Professor of French
Director, Muriel Tomlinson Language Resource Center
University of Tennessee at Martin
Chair, AATF Commission on Advocacy
Director, Globegate Intercultural Web Project
Editor, Societe Francois Villon Bulletin
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