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Speech Technology / How to let the Avatar read out a text?

« on: April 02, 2007, 07:35:09 am »

Isn't there anyone who could help me out? I'd need the described functionality for my studies...

Greetings,
Trav

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Speech Technology / How to let the Avatar read out a text?

« on: March 21, 2007, 09:29:43 am »

Hi there.

When I started HalPad I was able to let a voice read out the written text. Apparently it was not possible to use a chosen Avatar to do so. Isn't it possible to use UltraHal to give it a text and the avatar then reads it out - using Lip Sync?

If not: Is there any program that can do this with Haptek Characters AND MS Agent Characters?

Thanks for your reply,
Trav

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / Please help: UltraHal Console Skin needed

« on: March 20, 2007, 12:04:15 pm »

Thank you for your reply(s)!

I did download both of the skins which are marked with "no character load". The one called "H9000" is unusable for me because if used within a user study, most of the users would have a lot of complaints because there is only one line for text output. That would distract from the original things I want to evaluate with that experiment.
The one called "Scanner2" does a better job, although I would prefer a less colorful and kind of "flashy" Skin for such an experiment a LOT.

By the way: That "Pewter"-Skin is very nice for my personal use of UltraHal - just a normal window. Thanks for that one.
May I ask you to do me a favour and take exactly that skin and "substract" the character display area? That isn't a lot of work, is it...?!

Well, a big THANK YOU again for your reply,
have a nice day,
Trav

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / Please help: UltraHal Console Skin needed

« on: March 16, 2007, 05:47:18 am »

Hi there everybody.

I just started playing around with UltraHal (which promises to be a lot of fun). I'll write my thesis about embodied conversational agents and what kind of mental models users have of different avatars.
For my study I need the possibility to use UltraHal without any character(-animation). I did find the "UltraHal Console" skin in the Plugins section but the link seems to be broken.

Does anyone have a copy of that skin that he or she could upload somewhere or mail me?

Thanks for your reply,
Greetings from Germany,
Trav