I ran across the SpeaksForItself speech synthesis plugin a while back, and finally got some time to play with it today. It’s amazing!
The plugin is an easy way to add speech synthesis to any website. But what’s really interesting to flash developers is the plugin returns values for mouth-shape/lip-position on-the-fly. These values can then easily be used to create talking lips in flash using either lips you create in the authoring environment, or lips drawn with the MX drawing API.
Here is a basic example I threw together today using only curveTo(): Speaking Smiley
Next I want to use it with my own or other’s voices. The syncing will always take a bit of tweeking, but you get realistic looking lips in a fraction of the time!
[note-I’ll try to find the time to add basic drawing functionality to this example so you can draw your own face]
I hope everyone has a Great Weekend!
Jerryscript
