Re: Avatar -talking head - Collaboration / Beta Testing Discussion Boards

i am interested in joining ur application developement . but i am from india n i had just finished my college . i have some knowledge on c++ and on win api's since i had done my college project on that .. pls reply me to this message if u need further information pls ..

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Hi,
Im working on a little gfx lib that also contains a managed xhtml renderer (using gdi+)

it works on both normal .net and pocket pc (www.compona.com/vfce.gif[^])

now i need some help testing this on mono/gtk#

so if anyone has any experience with gtk# please let me know.

//Roger

Hi Folks !

I had posted this before, and forgive me, if anyone responded,
but I havent been back here for a while, way too much going on.

Here's my dilemma/request:

I have my home set up with x-10 gizmos everywhere, I went so far as to buy the
smarthome hal 2000 & recent upgrades that enable a box to have voice recognition,
responses via a voice engine, and create all sorts of macros to turn said x-10 gizmos
on and off. So far it is very cool and works relatively smart.

I also play the quake/RTCW games, and noticed that in RTCW some of the bots
when scripted to speak/play a soundfile they move their "mouth" to give the
illusion of speech.

What I need/want is some method to build a stand alone program, perhaps windows
based, that will imitate the functionality of the RTCW talking bot.
in Short, I'd like a talking head for my home automation speach recognition software.
I don't need it to be perfectly in sync, or have accurate emotions, just some
illusary functionality to perhaps give a personality to the computer house control.
It would be cool if I could custom "skin" it using some image format, but I'd settle
for a he or a she stock right now.
The idea is it sits static until the software "plays" a soundfile, or sound occurs,
then it "mouths" the sound it "hears", then stops.

For what it's worth, I know smarthome has sold a ton of the software, and the addition
of a talking customizable head would have a market albeit untested...
we probably won't retire on it but it could be worth our while and
i'd enjoy the collaboration of the project.

I am not a student, and this is NOT an assignment,
I want something like holly on red dwarf, just a head in the box to give onlookers
a WOW !

I don't C+
I can script unix and some perl and dare I say gwbasic.
I can steal & stitch html & java applets with the best of them.
I'm thinking this is best suited for a c type programmer ?
thoughts?

Challenge...any takers ?

thanks for your time...

-Watchman

If you could snag some speech recognition source code, then it probably wouldn't be too hard.

Most speech recognition programs break the incoming sound stream into syllable sized bytes - delimited by the short delays in syllables. There are a (not too large) fixed number of these stored syllable types (some use words instead of syllables). The software maps the closest match between the incoming sound and a stored syllable type and then does a look-up to see what action is assigned to that match.

If you hooked your avatar skinning into those same syllable matching handlers then you could create a small image (just the mouth) that corresponds to each syllable and have that image BitBlt'ed to cover the current mouth of the avatar.

So, if you had speech recognition source code, the effort would break down into 99% creating all of the mouth shape images and 1% in telling the software that whenever it hears this syllable to BitBlt this image to these screen coordinates.

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Hi Terry Thank-You for responding.
I LOVE that all the responces so far have been on the highly technical front !
(I also posted under suggestions forum)
You fellows are looking at it from the point of matching the phonom to lip/facial
movement. I think THAT would be the ultimate in "reality" however from what all I have
read on the subject out there, there are several highly technical teams working VERY
hard to solve the issues to create a believeable human like virtual speaker.
While it WOULD be the ultimate, I am thinking along what I believe to be a simpler
model.

I will use the return to castle wolvenstein example, in the game characters (bots)
are actually line coded to "PLAY" a sound file (just a simple wav) when the soundfile
is playing, (and I have even coded just a music file to play) the character/bot
moves it's head, and it's mouth just "mumbles" moves it's lips and just some VERY basic
facial movement, NONE of which is in sync to the actual sound or phonom.
I found it to be believeable-enough at least for the purposes of the game because one doesn't linger watching the character you have other priorities in the game.

I am thinking that for now that would be all I need is just a mumbling head, perhaps
not the talking head, so it mumbles during a "what U hear" even for ALL sound playback.

However, what you are talking about WOULD be very believeable and it would have the
commercial potential, it may be possible to explain the project to smarthome.com
and aquire the source code to develop a real talking head, I would think that it
would be THE way to go in developing a commercial product. but way too involved for
my immediate task.

if you would like, I can put together a proposal to them along with non-disclosure
to see if they have a commercial interest in this. Would you be interested in working
on a virtual team for a project like this ?

-Watchman

Hello all!

I've been thinking alot lately about an alternative to the current point 2 point mp3 file sharing trend. The idea is this:

Individuals basically turn their computer into an internet radio station, broadcasting constantly with the software indexing the playlist. The main application would be able to search all currenlty broadcasting persons playlists so that they could find and listen to the song that they were looking for. The stream could then be rippped into an MP3. If the song that the user was searching for is not playing at the current time, then when the song becomes available it begins broadcasting to the computer of the individual that requested it. This eliminates the need for a cetralized server connnecting peers that are downloading. The only reason for a cetralized server is for a repository of currently playing song lists.

If anyone is interested in this as an idea, please respond.

thanks,

dankydoo

Hi,

this is a great idea. Have you looked to programs like clipInc? There are many programs to rip songs from radio. I do not know the features and if they support a search for songs etc.

bye

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Thanks, and I hope someone get this application important.

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I've recently started a free mmog (massive multiplayer online game).
We had the initial coding done but the two vital team-members fought
so much that all the code was lost and they both quit.
So now i need a reasonably skilled coder to join us from scratch.

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Anyone feel like recording several wave files of their voices saying specific - but not totally scripted things?

You'll get a chance to sort of be actors.

You'll get credited in the software - you might even become famous!!!!!!!!

I am writing software to help users with the BowFlex system. They can pre-program their workout routines (excercises, weight to use, number of reps, number of sets, etc) and select a "trainer" (your voices). The trainer will then talk them through the exercises, counting the reps, telling them what excercise is next, what attachment to use, how to position the seat, etc.

I want each trainer to have a very unique personality - like one would be a drill sergeant, one would be a kindly and motivating pal type, one would be a dominent beeyotch, etc, etc.

The people could pick which trainer they would feel most motivated by.

Specifying the bench positions (place the bench in the 45 degree position)
Specifying the attachment to use (This excercise uses the lat pulldown bar)
Describing how to do each excercise
Naming the excercise (Now for some bench presses)
Counting to 50 - several different times
Telling how much weight to put on each side - from 5 to 205 pounds in increments of 5
Several motivational phrases consistent with the character being acted

I can not afford to pay actors for this. I am guessing the entire repertoire for each character would take less than a half hour to do.

If you'd be interested then let me know!

Glano perictu com sahni delorin!

Hi All,

I've just started my degree thesis that focuses on unit testing. I am doing this at a company that deals with critical control systems. My goal is to find different automated unit testing frameworks and evaluate these and present the best one for the company. The language is mainly C++ and is developed in Visual Studio 6.0. Now, I've already tested a few applications, such as C++Test, Cantata++ and CppUnit. I found Cantata being the most efficient one, but I also liked CppUnit although it didn't fulfill the automating properties that I was looking for. (Neither did Cantata fully for that matter)

I am currently looking for other unit testing applications to evaluate. Does anybody have suggestions/tips? Also, which tools are used today in other companies for such purpose? Are there any documented evaluations/comparisons of different unit testing tools?

Thank you in advance,

Sincerely,
Parham

Be sure to look at TestComplete[^] by AutomatedQA.

Sean Winstead
ComponentScience, Inc.

Here is another one:

http://www.segue.com/products/functional-regressional-testing/silktest.asp

Hi,

We need someone on an asian system to help us resolve a bug in one of our components.
http://www.compona.com/wikiengine/WikiPageViewer.ascx?id=5[^]

bug desc:
There is only one bug that the composition window of
Japanese IME is not displayed at the position of caret

If anyone is interested in helping us please contact us at:
info [at] compona.com

(free licenses are available for helping Wink | ;)

)

//Roger

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Hello
I'm Yaser zia sistani
And Iranian c# Developer

I want an app and anybody who help me in finding it or/and buying it
or who give me some c# source code to develop it will payed
according to the price that he wants.

Program that i want :
c# app with source code that let a user in an intranet

manipulates its data in a sqlserver database
which means:
1-create and manipulate sql server tables,views,stored procedure
preferably by a good sql designer gui

2-create web forms dynamically from web by
selecting the tables,views, stored procedures
from a sql server database and let user save the form
in sqldb or xml file

3-create web reports with save capability and good
report generator or designer
easy to use and powerfull gui are beter for our personel

4-security is needed in all above needs

I want a full package to buy ,please send me the price and brochour
If you have some libraries that helps me approching this goal
I can buy them from you with good price

Please help me Really I will pay for it.
But Please hurry up
Yaser Zia Sistani From Iran
A C# Developer

yzsfsg@yahoo.com

yzsfsg

Please go to rentacoder.com[^] and register as a software buyer.
Open a private auction for TerryONolley.

I will contact you through that website.

Glano perictu com sahni delorin!

have u ever gotten a job through that place?

No matter how many times u take a dump, u can never accumulate more than your mother.
West African proverb(a favorite of my mother).

Yeah

It was small but I got rated a 10. After that I started getting invites for private auctions.

Glano perictu com sahni delorin!

rentacoder sucks!
we tried to get someone to do a small job for us and both coders we found failed to deliver even after they both said they could absolutely do it and had done it gigazillions of times before

//Roger

I had a look and the rough guides to the prices looked way off the mark. Do these people actually expect quality work for the money they are offering.

At this point I like to quote my paternal grandmother: Buy cheap buy dear.

"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar

The Second EuroCPian Event will be in Brussels on the 4th of September

Can't manage to P/Invoke that Win32 API in .NET? Why not do interop the wiki way!

If the buyer is in Iran, don't US export restrictions prevent you from trading?

Just curious.

"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar

The Second EuroCPian Event will be in Brussels on the 4th of September

Can't manage to P/Invoke that Win32 API in .NET? Why not do interop the wiki way!