--- Forwarded Message from "kate hammond" <[log in to unmask]> --- >From: "kate hammond" <[log in to unmask]> >To: "'Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum'" <[log in to unmask]> >References: <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: RE: #8692 animated talking figures >Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 18:12:44 -0000 >thread-index: AcggLatSsHF09Y+bSa+5NQJQ8AvOpwBO/H4Q >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> 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 [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of LLTI-Editor Sent: 06 November 2007 04:30 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: #8692 animated talking figures --- 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]) ***********************************************