Talking heads on you web-site:

Inovani deliver an easy to use ASP service for running talking head (e.g. Web hosts) on your web-site.

The talking head shows up on web-pages on your web-site. The head is running in a Java applet (the FacePlayer) and this applet has functionality to control what the head says. The head can speak with recorded sound, or the speech can be generated on demand using synthetic voices. Synthetic voices are available for many different languages, and every day new languages and voices appear on the market.

Inovani has a variety of heads available for such services. You may use one of these or have your own 3D model deliver your messages. New heads are easy to create either by a 3D modeller close to you or by one of Inovani's partners for 3D modelling, e.g. Henning Birkeland.

The service is flexible and easy to use from web-servers anywhere in the world. It is also possible to install this service on your computers instead of accessing inovani owned hardware.

Easy integration with your web-site:

To run a talking head with recorded sound on your web-site, all necessary files are stored on your servers. The FacePlayer applet is then inserted and used on any page where you want a talking head.

If the talking head is to speak utterances generated on demand, sound and "animation commands" must be generated. This is delivered from Inovani services. Several architectures are available for getting sound and animation commands. All of them tackle the security restriction on applets: applets are only allowed to communicate with the web-site they are loaded from.

Fore example it is possible to placing the FacePlayer on a web-page on the Inovani ASP server, and presenting this page in an iFrames on your web-page. The graphics of the FacePlayer page is adjusted to fit the graphics of the surrounding page. To get the head to speak, you use Java Script or similar to send messages to the applet to tell it what to say. The FacePlayer contacts the inovani server to get the sound and animation commands.

Another example is having the FacePlayer web-page residing on your site. You then create a service on your site that connects to the inovani ASP service to get the sound and animation commands created.  This is then sent to the FacePlayer to make the head talk.