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The avatar challenge: demonstration

This is a step-by-step preview of the real mobile application for Windows Phone. Click on the phone’s screen to proceed in each step.

Information about the demonstration

This demonstration introduces My Digital Assistant for mobile phones, the new application which will bring a personal virtual assistant into everybody’s Windows Phone. Myda is able to collect notifications about your appointments, tasks, emails as well as relevant social networking updates, and to organize and announce them with appropriate timing.

Myda, the avatar, is powered by H-care’s Face Engine, a carrier-grade text-to-avatar system, actually the front-end component of the Human Digital Assistant platform.

The avatar is created and rendered by H-care’s high quality 3D technology while the the voice is powered by Loquendo TTS.

The main features of the H-care’s Face Engine are:

  • real-time rendering of a high-quality OpenGL 3D avatar
  • accurate lip-syncing with TTS’s phonemes and emotional attributes
  • facial animation with +60 facial movements and poses
  • real-time audio/video encoding in 3GP for mobile or FLV for web/kiosks
  • all of the above with scalability to thousands of concurrent users
  • support for different languages with most diffused Text-To-Speech engines
  • resolution from thumbnails to Full HD (1920×1080)

About the avatar in this application:

  • Name: Myda
  • Age: 24
  • 3D Model: over 20,000 poligons
  • Voice: Loquendo Emotional TTS (Kate, English UK, Emotional, 22Khz)

The application demonstrated in this page is copyrighted by H-care. Every information on this page is strictly confidential and for use only by the intended recipient(s) and it doesn’t represent any commitment between H-care and the recipient(s) and no liability or responsibility is accepted by H-care for it. If you are not an intended recipient(s), please do not download any content. Re-distribution is not permitted without previous authorization from H-care. Windows, Windows Phone, Loquendo are registered brands of their respective owners.