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>Subject: RE: #8692 animated talking figures
>Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 18:12:44 -0000
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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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>Subject: 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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