My Competition – new from Guile3D.
I’ve just discovered the company Guile3D.com that sells a talking head character of a stunning beautiful woman, Denise. It’s currently much more advanced than my Moose, and in a sense, it will be...
View ArticleInitial list of other talking characters
I found a forum post on an Artificial Intelligence blog that mentioned quite a few talking characters and related products. I made this list, to keep track of them, but as I was building this list and...
View ArticleMore talking characters
Today I found another website that lists some other talking characters. Here are some of the interesting ones. - Charamel.com (used 3D rendering to make 2D characters.) - MediaSemantics.com (3D look,...
View ArticleDenise Virtual Assistant
I found this video of Guile3D’s Denise virtual assistant. It’s a good video. I bet you didn’t watch it all. I couldn’t tolerate the unnatural movements of Denise and her poorly-moving lips. The Moose...
View ArticleHumanity Online – has quite a nice photo realistic talking avatar
Today I discovered Humanityonline.com, and they have developed talking avatars that are quite photo-realistic. My first (of two) videos shows the short weather report for Edmonton today. I made a...
View ArticleUltra Hal Assistant
Check out Ultra Hal by Zabaware. A very pretty redhead 3D female speaking agent. She has quite good eye behavior, but poor lip motion. I’m happy to see Ultra Hal is still around. I really like this...
View ArticleZoe. Photo realism, but not friendly.
see also, this Microsoft research talking head, of Craig. Digressing now, to a much lower standard, are these female Evie faces, being driven by Cleverbot chat bot technology. It is temporarily...
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