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From: Ernie Wright <ernie@gaspra.pd.com>
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Subject: Re: Talking Objects
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I haven't written any semi-relevant semi-science in this space in a
while, so here goes.
A lot of linguistics texts have sagittal section diagrams (side-view
line drawings of the nose, lips, tongue and throat) that show how most
phonemes (language sounds) are created. It would be pretty cool to
make versions of a talking object model for each phoneme, then write
a program that could read words, translate them into phoneme sequences,
and write a scene file with the corresponding chain of morph targets.
Similar things have been done, but as far as I know they're not readily
available to animators. If there's someone out there with the time and
the background (I'm a little short on both), she might want to give
this some thought.
- Ernie