WarCry Choice Posts: 1986 Joined: 29 Jan 2004 | AGDC 07: Vivox Demonstration
Vivox is one of those companies that makes the future reality. As provides of VOIP solutions to games like EVE Online and Second Life, their mission sounds pretty straight-forward, but in reality, they're blurring the line between science fiction and fact. At AGDC we caught up on their company's progress and new features like voice fonts and text-to-speech recognition.
The second science fiction moment was their display of voice fonts. In a demonstration with a female member of the Vivox team, the same filters were applied to both our voices and in real-time gave us distinct, yet completely unrecognizable voices. They had three on display: a scratchy Orc, a booming Paladin and a squeaky Elf. All three were quite good, especially the Orc and the Paladin. The Elf had consumed a bit too much helium for my tastes, though.
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AGDC 07: Vivox Demonstration
Vivox is one of those companies that makes the future reality. As provides of VOIP solutions to games like EVE Online and Second Life, their mission sounds pretty straight-forward, but in reality, they're blurring the line between science fiction and fact. At AGDC we caught up on their company's progress and new features like voice fonts and text-to-speech recognition.
Read more after the click.
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