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From: nad@cl.cam.ac.uk (Neil Dodgson)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: A thought on facial representations
Message-ID: <1990Nov9.100923.3071@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Date: 9 Nov 90 10:09:23 GMT
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In article <35703@cup.portal.com> Alvin@cup.portal.com (Alvin Henry White) writes:
>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.

One of the proposed HDTV standards has the requirement for EIGHT channels
of sound.  One of the proposed uses of these channels is to broadcast, say,
the commentary to a major sporting event in five or six different languages
and to put the crowd noise, etc on the other two or three channels.  The
viewer can then choose which language to get a commentary in (if any :-)
and how much crowd noise to mix in.

This has very little to do with comp.graphics tho' --- but I thought you'd
be interested anyway!



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