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Subject: RE: FLASH: dynamic voice (sound) activated Flash?
From: Damian Morton
Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 01:12:02 +0100

You would have to embed your flash into an Active-X container of some sort.
Director or VB. You could then use MS voice recognition to send commands to
your flash script.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owneratchinwag [dot] com [owneratchinwag [dot] com]On">mailto:owneratchinwag [dot] com]On Behalf Of Ted Nunes
> Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 7:29 PM
> To: 'flasheratchinwag [dot] com'
> Subject: FLASH: dynamic voice (sound) activated Flash?
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> THE BACKSTORY:
> I have developed a Flash-animated character for use in
> tradeshows: a laptop
> sits atop a motorized cart and the animation appears on the laptop screen
> as the face--sort of a "Johnny 5"-ish kind of thing.
>
> Currently, the setup has a "puppeteer" using a remote mouse to toggle the
> "talking" cycle on and off as they speak through a sound system (the
> character's "mouth" is a waveform that has wiggly frames and
> still frames).
> Basically that works, but after the debut tradeshow my client said that
> sometimes it got to be too crowded and as the cart rolled down
> the isle it
> was hard to maintain line-of-sight, which the remote mouse needs to work.
>
> THE QUESTION:
> My client wants to have the talking be dynamically-activated by the sound
> of the "puppeteer's" voice. Does anyone have any idea how this could be
> accomplished (without tossing the Flash altogether)*? Is there
> perhaps some
> exotic Flash plug-in or specialized hardware that could do this? I'm just
> starting to look into it so any ideas for leads I could follow would be
> appreciated.
>
> *then again, if you know a non-Flash way, let me hear it. I just need to
> present alternatives to the client.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ted Nunes - Art Director - Duthie Associates, Inc.
> tedatduthiemm [dot] com - http://www.duthiemm.com
> 3310 West End Ave. Ste 575 - Nashville,TN 37203
> 615-386-3061 - 615-386-3063 (fax)
>
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