inovani's unique technology is implemented in the Inovani animation engine: a software only, state of the art rendering of talking expressive characters. These characters are programmed to present verbal (spoken) content with close to natural facial motions, and they include lifelike human head models, suitably modelled cartoon heads, “talking heads” or avatars.

The unique technology is supplemented by web-based services that allow partners and customer to get talking heads on their web-pages and to deliver and create talking head greetings. These products package the various components of our technology into a set of easy to use interfaces by means of web-pages and HTTP calls. All this can be run as ASP services delivered from hardware owned by inovani or on partners' servers. See more about this on the products page.

The core architecture of an inovani talking head solution:

In an application involving inovani technology there are four distinct parts:

1.     Head models

2.     Animation commands and sound

3.     The FacePlayer: an animation engine taking 1 and 2 as input and producing a “talking head”

4.     Infrastructure for delivering “talking heads”

Part 3 is completely developed by inovani and contains the company’s unique speech animation technology. For parts 1 and 2 the inovani software products use 3^rd party software and models. 

Part 4 is necessary in order to produce an end user service based on the animation engine. The infrastructure can consist of existing delivery mechanisms like web and various video players, or it can involve more advanced interactive functionality using the inovani player as a plugin in the browser. It can also be built for mobile services using SMS and MMS services, WAP or mobile IP.

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At present, the products are delivered for Windows operating systems and in some cases also as 100% Java implementations. Video creation is delivered as a net-based service. 

The products are easily portable to new operating systems. In particular the “FacePlayer” can run on any hardware with more than 100MHz CPU. The other products are also easily ported provided that the necessary 3^rd party software is available.