Note that the animation in all the video examples are created from the following data:
The phonemes in the spoken text
Timed expressions such as "smile at time 1,2 seconds and hold
it for 1,5 seconds". When using text-to-speech systems, expressions are added by
inserting smilies into the text :-)
There is no manual work or motion capture involved.
This animation quality is
guaranteed when using text-to-speech systems such as Loquendo TTS,
Babel Bright Speech and Talsmann from Telenor F&U.
PC programs
that show real time 3D animation. In one
of the demos you can type in text to create a face animation -
this requires you to download Microsoft Text-to-speech software.
inovani
FacePlayer for web-pages. Requires you
to download the inovani FacePlayer (290KByte). After that
downloading the animation examples is much faster than
corresponding video downloads.