Anna speaks - animated character with TTS

George Maestri wrote an article in 2001 titled 'Animating Dialog' on peachpit.com that showed images of a figure with eight different mouth positions based on which letters were being spoken.

This project attempts to match those images with spoken text using the TextToSpech component.

The user touches the character's face - or - enters text to be spoken then touches the say it button.

The mouth moves roughly along with the speech, but it is interesting, none the less.

Face.aia

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This has a high fun-to-blocks ratio.

Very nice!

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