http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/04/virtual-newscaster-hosts-news-at-seven/ Engadget Comments for Virtual newscaster hosts News At Seven http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/04/virtual-newscaster-hosts-news-at-seven/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/04/virtual-newscaster-hosts-news-at-seven/Oct 4th 2006 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/04/virtual-newscaster-hosts-news-at-seven/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/04/virtual-newscaster-hosts-news-at-seven/Oct 4th 2006 12:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/04/virtual-newscaster-hosts-news-at-seven/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/04/virtual-newscaster-hosts-news-at-seven/Alex is from Breakdown.]]>Oct 5th 2006 8:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/04/virtual-newscaster-hosts-news-at-seven/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/04/virtual-newscaster-hosts-news-at-seven/Oct 4th 2006 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/04/virtual-newscaster-hosts-news-at-seven/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/04/virtual-newscaster-hosts-news-at-seven/
I should stop watching Pokemon. That line made me think of this quote by Brock:
For some people, summer means playing at the beach. But for me, it means bikinis and girls to wear them!" (or something like that =P)

"Customized" to my interests? I'd like one of the girls from Love Hina to read me the Engadget news. ^~]]>Oct 4th 2006 12:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/04/virtual-newscaster-hosts-news-at-seven/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/04/virtual-newscaster-hosts-news-at-seven/
http://infolab.northwestern.edu/#projects/40---projects]]>Oct 4th 2006 12:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/04/virtual-newscaster-hosts-news-at-seven/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/04/virtual-newscaster-hosts-news-at-seven/Oct 4th 2006 12:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/04/virtual-newscaster-hosts-news-at-seven/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/04/virtual-newscaster-hosts-news-at-seven/Oct 4th 2006 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/04/virtual-newscaster-hosts-news-at-seven/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/04/virtual-newscaster-hosts-news-at-seven/Oct 4th 2006 1:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/04/virtual-newscaster-hosts-news-at-seven/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/04/virtual-newscaster-hosts-news-at-seven/
Are you for real? Only you MORONS would believe that peole will IMITATE you, 80% of your post are from asian products not available in the US or UK.

You really have gone mad

and the only thing you were right is about you launching spin-off sites all willy nilly, using the same pictures, same posts, same words, same titles.

CRAZY MORONS]]>Oct 4th 2006 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/04/virtual-newscaster-hosts-news-at-seven/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/04/virtual-newscaster-hosts-news-at-seven/Oct 4th 2006 1:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/04/virtual-newscaster-hosts-news-at-seven/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/04/virtual-newscaster-hosts-news-at-seven/Everything is generated automatically. The system starts with a couple news stories, to which it finds/processes/adds images and movies. It then processes the text for the text-to-speech engine (expanding abbreviations, etc.) It also finds a high-affect, relevant blog about the story. It then runs the speech through a TTS engine and modifies the output WAV files to include HL2's lipsyncing information. Finally, the system reads in templated .VCDs (HL2's scripting files, created in FacePoser), modifies them to include the right sound files, image timings, etc., and saves them back out. It also tweaks and recompiles the map if it needs to (you can specify which anchor is speaking, etc.)
It runs properly in-game, but we use Fraps to dump it out to video.
Please email me (or post here) if you have any questions!
Thanks,
ndnichols@cs.northwestern.edu]]>Oct 4th 2006 1:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/04/virtual-newscaster-hosts-news-at-seven/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/04/virtual-newscaster-hosts-news-at-seven/Well done, a neat project.]]>Oct 4th 2006 1:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/04/virtual-newscaster-hosts-news-at-seven/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/04/virtual-newscaster-hosts-news-at-seven/Oct 4th 2006 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/04/virtual-newscaster-hosts-news-at-seven/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/04/virtual-newscaster-hosts-news-at-seven/Oct 4th 2006 3:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/04/virtual-newscaster-hosts-news-at-seven/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/04/virtual-newscaster-hosts-news-at-seven/Oct 5th 2006 7:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/04/virtual-newscaster-hosts-news-at-seven/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/04/virtual-newscaster-hosts-news-at-seven/Unfortunately, the mod isn't ready to be released yet. We want it out in the real world, though, and we're working very hard to try and figure out the best way to get the system deployed to the public. Thanks!]]>Oct 5th 2006 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/04/virtual-newscaster-hosts-news-at-seven/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/04/virtual-newscaster-hosts-news-at-seven/
And 2: Please stop spelling the name 'Alyx' like 'alex' to all those who don't know how to spell. Other than that, you did a real good job of this, this is really intertaining for the Half-Life fans. Thank you very much.]]>Oct 16th 2006 11:31PM