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From: Alvin@cup.portal.com (Alvin Henry White)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: A thought on facial representations
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Date: 7 Nov 90 20:29:51 GMT
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In this line of thinking, I have been trying to hatch a set up that takes
a TV signal and buffers it to a video tape for a couple of seconds. At
the same time taking out the close captioned subtitles  and running them
through a computer translator word for word and comming back an dubbing
a second line under the first that has your desired second language. At
the same time running the second language through a text to speech processor
and outputting a stereo signal that has your desired language on the second
channel.  Now with facial animation you could have a second monitor for the
other eye that synthesized the facial expressions. If you had an inset
picture that speech teachers use to teach speech, the kind that shows the
position of the tongue, teeth, and whether or not air is being expelled,
we could teach everybody on earth how to speak our world language while
watching the 6 O'Clock news.

Alvin H. White, Gen. Sect.
G.O.D.S.B.R.A.I.N.
Government Online Database Systems
Bureau for Resource Allocations to Information Networks
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