Thanks for the kind words.
I don't use IClone. I built my own animation engine using MS Visual Studio in the C# language. It took me a while to get my head around it.
The model itself is a Daz3D model. In the example I posted I was using the basic
Victoria 5 model. I only used her head for that example. I found the poly count to be a bit too high, so my later work was on the much simpler (relatively) Victoria 4 model from Daz. I can load up full bodies, but the actual animation of her limbs is another hill to climb. That's why I am working just on heads at the moment.
I currently have her blinking, and the last thing I got working was her eyes moving around. I have a lot more I want to do, but I have been busy with other stuff, like coding an AIML interpreter and playing with open source voice generation. My goal is to build my own assistant that will run and live on a Linux box I built. But she will have a lot of web access too and I would like to hook her up to my Android tablet too. There's so much I want to do !
The poem is 'Daisy Daisy' :
http://www.metrolyrics.com/daisy-daisy-bicycle-built-for-two-lyrics-henry-dacre.htmlI used it (and other poems) because I can easily see how my mouth animation is working out without having to talk to a bot repeatedly. Also I like it because that's the poem Hal 9000 in
2001 A Space Odyssey started to recite when he was being shut down.
Her voice was English UK Emma from Ivona, which you can try out here :
http://www.ivona.com/You are correct about the Australian accent. That voice is named 'Karen'. I think Nuance may have bought that company, I forget their name, but she can be found here :
http://www.nextup.com/nuance.html