--- Forwarded Message from Bob Peckham <[log in to unmask]> --- >User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.2.4.060510 >Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 21:44:28 -0600 >Subject: talking sims >From: Bob Peckham <[log in to unmask]> >To: LLTI <[log in to unmask]> >Thread-Topic: talking sims >Thread-Index: AcgfXip4aN+/LYtREdyeGgAbY5TpeA== 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 [log in to unmask] *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************