University of Miskolc
Internet Assistant
Miklós
Péter
Balogh
baloghmp@delfin.klte.hu
2002
University of Tübingen
Tübingen
ALLC/ACH 2002
editor
Harald
Fuchs
encoder
Sara
A.
Schmidt
By the expansion of Internet, more and more problems are solved by using the
computer. During these operations we navigate the Net using qvasi only visual
and written informations. This tendency is likely to change nowadays; the
occurance of pages including complete multimedial applications are more
frequent. So we can say, that the Internet is ready for audio-visual contact.
Our application is based on this fact. The main idea is, making an animation
from a synthetized voice and from a faceimage. Faceimages are prerecorded
images. Every faceimage is typical of a set of voices. For this method we can
reduce the number of images by classifiing the voices. A set of voices is
associated with a faceimage. So a couple of dozen faceimages are enough for the
application. The synthetized voice uses the "voiceengine" provided by the actual
computer (for example: IBM ViaVoice). To every voice in the voicestream we
corresponde a suitable faceimage. The synchronisation of these two
precesses(changing images, synthetizing) gives a video-like effect. The amin
point of this application is to accentuate special informations by reaching the
audiance via two channels, which is more effective than using single one. The
system is based completly on Java technology, which makes the application
compatible on any plattforms. The application works an all hardware
specifications and operating systems where Java Virtual Machine is provided
without any change.
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