jal@pandora.cs.wayne.edu (Jason Leigh) (06/08/91)
Hi, I'm wondering if there is a system that will allow you to type English into a computer and it will first translate it into phonetics and then given the phonetics, translate this into the appropriate 2D animation frame for the particular mouth movement that creates that voice. Jason Leigh jal@cs.wayne.edu -- :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) ;^) O^: (^: (^: (^: (^: (^: (^: (^: :^) Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. (^: :v) Which of the two has the grander view? - Victor Hugo (v: :v) :v) :v) :v) :v) :v) :v) :v) :v( $v: (v: (v: (v: (v: (v: (v: (v:
e._john_love@icecave.wimsey.bc.ca (E. John Love) (06/10/91)
Amigas have built in speech synthesizers, which, although the clarity of the output is questionable, do work. Using a small program on the Amiga Workbench disk called "Say", you can enter a line of text for the Amiga to speak. It will display that line as phonemes, and say it back for you. Perhaps something like this would be useful to you? "Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Television..." ------------------------------------------------------- E. John Love The Ice-Cave BBS Vancouver BC Canada (604) 873-8452 e._john_love@icecave.wimsey.bc.ca
chrisl@cbmvax.commodore.com (Christian Ludwig - CATS) (06/17/91)
In article <e._john_love.9517@icecave.wimsey.bc.ca> e._john_love@icecave.wimsey.bc.ca (E. John Love) writes: >Amigas have built in speech synthesizers, which, although the clarity of the >output is questionable, do work. Using a small program on the Amiga >Workbench disk called "Say", you can enter a line of text for the Amiga to >speak. It will display that line as phonemes, and say it back for you. >Perhaps something like this would be useful to you? > >"Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Television..." >------------------------------------------------------- >E. John Love The Ice-Cave BBS Vancouver BC Canada >(604) 873-8452 e._john_love@icecave.wimsey.bc.ca More to the point of the original posting (which requested information on animating a speaking mouth) the Amiga's built-in speech system software ("narrator.device") also returns values for "LipWidth" and "LipHeight" which can be used to draw a 2D mouth that will be sych-ed with the speach. There's some example code in the release 1.3 version of "Amiga Rom Kernal Reference Manul: Libraries and Devices" (Addison Wesley, ISDN 0-201-18187-8) which shows how to access this feature of the Amiga's OS. /// /// The opinions expressed may not reflect the position of my employer. \\\/// (Of course that depends on which position they're in!) \XX/