Animated & speech enabled characters by Inovani.

Inovani, a leading provider of speech animation products has selected Acapela's high end TTS to voice enable its animation engine, thus providing "talking heads" with a very natural and smooth animation and personality result.

Inovani delivers an animation engine: a software only, state of the art rendering of talking expressive characters. These characters are programmed to present spoken content with close to natural facial motions, and they include life-like human head models, suitably modeled cartoon heads, "talking heads" or avatars.

"Associated with text to speech, the character gallery comes to life. Acapela text to speech high quality and naturalness fits perfectly with the realistic speech motions of Inovani" said Else Nordhagen, Inovani CTO.
Speech motion is so realistically defined that it allows lip reading. It can be combined with emotions such as smiling while talking! Just try the demo: all you need to do is type your text, add the smilies (happy, surprised, secretive, interested, questioning, raise eyebrows, etc.), choose your character, look & listen!

Inovani enables Telecom operators, Content providers and others to offer value added services, on both mobile devices and PCs, by offering platform independent products for interactive life-like animation of expressive talking characters. Acapela TTS reads aloud any written information, in real time, opening up a wide panorama of personalised and catching services. For Christmas time, Inovani offers to create your own greetings using the Acapela voices at http://www.facems.com

The technology is language independent. The animation software runs on PCs and PDAs and in distributed environments. Inovani's products can be integrated with various applications: Web browsers, MMS services, games or specially targeted applications.