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From: chrisl@cbmvax.commodore.com (Christian Ludwig - CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: 2D speech animation
Message-ID: <22498@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 17 Jun 91 13:30:35 GMT
References: <e._john_love.9517@icecave.wimsey.bc.ca>
Reply-To: chrisl@cbmvax.commodore.com (Christian Ludwig - CATS)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <e._john_love.9517@icecave.wimsey.bc.ca> e._john_love@icecave.wimsey.bc.ca (E. John Love) writes:
>Amigas have built in speech synthesizers, which, although the clarity of the
>output is questionable, do work.  Using a small program on the Amiga
>Workbench disk called "Say", you can enter a line of text for the Amiga to
>speak.  It will display that line as phonemes, and say it back for you.
>Perhaps something like this would be useful to you?
>
>"Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Television..."
>-------------------------------------------------------
>E. John Love   The Ice-Cave BBS  Vancouver BC Canada
>(604) 873-8452   e._john_love@icecave.wimsey.bc.ca

More to the point of the original posting (which requested information
on animating a speaking mouth)  the Amiga's built-in speech system
software ("narrator.device") also returns values for "LipWidth" and
"LipHeight" which can be used to draw a 2D mouth that will be sych-ed
with the speach.

There's some example code in the release 1.3 version of
"Amiga Rom Kernal Reference Manul: Libraries and Devices"
(Addison Wesley, ISDN 0-201-18187-8)
which shows how to access this feature of the Amiga's OS.

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