[X3D-Public] XTranormal X3D

[Len Bullard]

TTS with integrated drag and drop behaviors, gestures, expressions, sounds,
multiple voice types to support multiple character types and languages. It's
a smart piece of work with fees for extra sets, actors, etc.  But the basic
free service is awesome for quickly made scripts.  Being able to add to that
collection would be great but I can see why they set it up as they have.

They've done what we've dabbled at, talked about, pointed standards at.
They filed patents.  Alas, but there it is.

len

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Isn't that just like text-to-speech? I've too been looking
for a TTS solution that would work in-world, so we can give
a voice to avatars using pre-scripted or live chat text.
That would be much more flexible and efficient than say
using recorded *.wav files and such for voice overs. Seems
to me that supporting functions would have to be programmed
directly into X3D players so text could be rendered into
audible language using phonetic. Probably a greater
challenge if several languages are to be supported. 

Lauren

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[mailto:x3d-public-bounces at web3d.org] On Behalf Of Len
Bullard
Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 6:59 PM
To: x3d-public at web3d.org
Subject: [X3D-Public] XTranormal X3D

When will someone do for X3D worlds what XTranormal does for
videos?
 
I worked on HumanML hoping someone would make that happen
but it didn’t.  It became too many things to too many
people.

Is it really that hard?  XTranormal has approximately 1.6
million projects, series, all from a simple drag and drop
text interface.
 
It is said the power of HTML is view source, but really, it
is text you CAN type.   XTranormal simplified to the basics
and it works.
 
len


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