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Slightly different but also useful if you need to animate a character is
CrazyTalk which seems to be gathering pace with the potential for any
language to be used. http://www.reallusion.com/crazytalk/default.asp
We have not used it for teaching yet and would be interested to share
experiences.
Regards
Kate
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Hi Bob,
The one I've played with is SitePal - it's an "avatar" according to their
name. You can make one for free and send it someone, but I think you have
to pay a monthly fee to keep one on your website or blog, etc.
http://www.sitepal.com/
They have a link to a World Lottery site that has a choice of hearing it in
13 different languages:
http://www.sitepal.com/showcaseFrameset.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fworldlottery.com
Marlene
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Hello TBob et al:
You are probably thinking of SitePals
All the info you are looking for can be found at
http://www.sitepal.com/
Greetings from J$F6rg
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Bob Peckham <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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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?
I've usually heard them referred to as "talking avatars," but I've already
heard "intelligent agents" or "speaking characters" also used.
>
>
>2) Do they exist trained to read languages other than English?
Yes. A linguist friend of mine worked a while for Loquendo, an Italian
company that does Text to Speech (TTS), developing the female American
voice "Susan" for them. Synthetic voices are gender-specific, with
regional dialect features. The array of voices available for the global
varieties of English and Spanish is as varied as the number of countries
where they are spoken natively. She told me most of us have likely already
dealt with synthetic voices on the telephone that we have not suspected
were such.
>
>
>3) Any hints on where I could find them?
http://www.sitepal.com
http://www.oddcast.com
http://www.gizmoz.com
http://www.talkingavatars.com
TTS:
http://www.loquendo.com
http://cepstral.com
http://www.voiceforge.com
Cheers,
Margo
Margo Burns, Technology Integration Specialist
Greater Manchester Professional Development Center
Room B109 at MST
http://www.gmpdc.org
530 South Porter St., Manchester, NH 03103
(603) 628-6144
Office: E121 at MST
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At 11:29 PM 11/5/2007, Bob Peckham wrote:
>1) What are they called?
Animated agents, pedagogical agents, animated pedagogical agents,
embedded conversational agents (ECAs).
>2) Do they exist trained to read languages other than English?
Depending on the technology they use, they may employ a
Text-to-Speech (TTS) engine. The TTS engine normally recognizes 1
language at a time, and you can have several engines installed to
recognize different languages.
>3) Any hints on where I could find them?
Here's a page I created a few years ago. Some links may be defunct,
but you'll get good information overall:
http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~rgp6722/websites/CEN5720-HCI/index.htm
Roberto Perez
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Animated Flash Avatars, perhaps?
Try SitePal. Very decent accents, not bad at all.
http://www.sitepal.com/french
http://www.sitepal.com/russian
http://www.sitepal.com/german
http://www.sitepal.com/spanish
DOUG
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