A new paper authored by researchers from Disney Research and several universities describes a new approach to procedural speech animation based on deep learning. The system samples audio recordings of ...

Researchers at the University of East Anglia, Caltech, Carnegie Mellon University and Disney have created a way to animate speech in real-time. With their method, rather than having skilled animators ...

UK company Speech Graphics is gunning for the top-spot in lip-sync technology: mark their words. RedShark contributor David Valjalo reports How does the adage go? Poorly synced virtual lips sink ...

Automated lip sync is not a new technology, but Disney Research, in tandem with a group of researchers at University of East Anglia (England), Caltech, and Carnegie Mellon University, have added a ...

Motion capture is a widely used technique to record the movement of the human body. Indeed, the technique has become ubiquitous in areas such as sports science, where it is used to analyze movement ...

Sto Austin is the man. Period. When not saving the world from the next generation of Metal Gears or throwing hadoukens at his detractors, chances are he's writing about someone else doing something ...

Animated Speech, a San Francisco company that sells language learning software for children with speech and language impairments, has raised $250,000 in financing. Keiretsu Forum, a group of ...

With The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, developers at CD Projekt RED felt pleased with the quality of lip-synced dialogue animations for its characters. Believing there was still room for improvement, though, ...

Easily turn any photo or graphic into a realistic, talking animations. Photo: Cult of Mac Deals Digital animation seems like magic, but it’s actually pretty simple — if you have the right tools. And ...

Speech Graphics, the market leader in audio-driven facial animation technology, is thrilled to announce that it has acquired the assets of OC3 Entertainment, pioneers in the field including their ...