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Programs that demonstrate inovani's animation engine:

The applications have been developed under Windows 2000 and XP. They have not been tested for 98, NT and ME but are expected to work there too. At present the demos are only available for these operating systems and the installation only works with Internet Explorer. A Windows CE demo is also available. If you would like a copy of this demo or encounter problems with the PC demo, please contact the info mailbox at inovani.no.

After installation you will find an icon for the installed application on your desktop. 

To remove the demo use the Add/Remove Programs facility in the Control Panel.

If you encounter problems please see below.

The Simple Player demo:

This is a small application with some associated sound files that run on your computer. By clicking on buttons you can select between a set of different heads and different sentences. This demonstrated real time 3D animation. The animations are driven by a sequence of phonemes (speech sounds), e.g. "Say 'm' at time 1.2 seconds" and a list of expressions, e.g. "Smile at time 1.2 seconds". All motion is calculated from this data.

INSTALL... (1 MB)

Type and Talk demo:

If you have Microsoft synthetic speech system installed on your computer, or want to take the time to download it (its free) you can get a Type&Talk application that shows how inovani's technology can be used in interactive applications. This is an application where you can type in a sentence and have it spoken back to you.

INSTALL...   (870 KB)

Installing Microsoft Speech:

Before the demo application can run on Windows "pre XP" you must download Microsoft Speech from this page at Microsoft's site. Get the file named SpeechSDK51.exe found at the bottom of the page, or download directly by clicking here: SpeechSDK51.exe. You need to download approximately 69 MByte. 

If you have Windows XP you can download the "Redist.: Mike and Mary" version which is substantially smaller also found on the Microsoft SAPI page and get the file names Sp5TTIntXP.exe found at the bottom of the page or download directly by clicking this link: Sp5TTIntXP.exe. It is approximately 3,5 MByte.

If you have problems downloading:

Since inovani at present does not have the right to sign their software components, we ask you to download an unsigned ActiveX control. Standard security settings in Internet Explorer does not allow you to do this. Therefore you might have to change your Internet Explorer security settings in order to download. To change this setting, do the following in your Internet Explorer browser (based on the Windows 2000 version):

  1. Click tools->Internet Options...

  2. Select the "security" tab. 

  3. Select the "Internet" globe and click the "Custom Level..." button.

  4. Find the option: "Download unsigned ActiveX controls"; usually second in the list. Change the "Disable" setting to "Prompt". Explanation: When the setting is "Prompt" you will be asked if you want a certain action to be performed or not. You can always say "NO". When set to "Disable" you are not asked and therefore cut of from getting some useful functionality - like downloading software like this.

  5. Then click OK.

If you have problems running The Player demo:

By going to this page you can get a check to see if you have a too old version of Windows Media Player on your system. You are directed to a page for downloading a new version if your current version is too old.