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From: Eric Case <eric@bigdog.engr.arizona.edu>
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Subject: Re: Talking Objects
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On Mon, 6 Feb 1995, Ernie Wright wrote:
> 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.
How about object replacement (ie. a plug-in) and not a morph?
>
> 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
>
Eric Case INTERNET: eric@bigdog.engr.arizona.edu