Attached Link: http://www.3dtrue.com/poser/36.html

I have it as well, and it's a pretty good app. I've only begun experimenting with it so I can't offer much advice at thge present. But I'd say go ahead and get it while it's on sale.

Damn! They're clock is set to Central Timezone too and the sale's over!

Message edited on: 06/08/2005 00:05

Hi I reccomend Mimic by DAZ. It's a powerful and fair priced application.

I have Poserspeak and Mimic. They do some of the same things, but if you are into animation I would suggest getting both. Poserspeak has just been released, and in my opinion has the basis to do much more than Mimic can in the long run. Much easier to use, and it runs inside Poser.

PoserSpeak is quick and easy to use But Mimic will give you better quality voice.If I just want my character to speak I'll use PoserSpeak if I want my character to sing and make sounds I'll use Mimic...You'll be happy with either one...

Waiting for the MAC version.... (hint...)

Practically speaking, Poserspeak is great, especially if you don't have voice actors available to use or don't want to spend money hiring them (or don't want to provide the voices yourself). It also eliminates the need for recording equipment to record voices. Mimic is great, too, but you have to have voice tracks to put into it. Poserspeak also works really well right out of the "box". And 3dTrue supports it very nicely. It's well worth the price. -jjsemp

Well I've already got Mimic. I can use Microsoft's Text to speech programs to create the same wav files that PoserSpeak can make and then use them in Mimic. It's just a bunch of extra steps. I would have bought PoserSpeak as an impulse buy last night if I hadn't missed the deadline by 5 minutes though.

I just saw this post :) Sorry you missed the sale Mizrael. You can still get PoserSpeak off of my site for $42.00. The sale yesterday had it at $38.00.

You are absolutely correct about the Microsoft Text2Speech wav thing. If you are comfortable with Mimic and prefer using this powerful program, you could just make your own wav files. There are a ton of free examples out there using the speech SDK. You could write a simple wav generator for free. PoserSpeak does so much more than generate wavs, and you would be wasting your money if the wav file was your only goal.

PoserSpeak is currently not an alternative to Mimic. It does things Mimic cannot do and it doesn't do things Mimic can do. Mimic works with raw sound data, PoserSpeak actually works off viseme and phoneme values output by the Speech API. Disney created the 21 viseme facial gestures which PoserSpeak utilizes. Additionally, PoserSpeak is not head, or morph specific, meaning a wide variety of morphs can be animated with it.

I have big plans for PoserSpeak in the future, i would state them here but it seems unprofessional to say what it will do until i have actually released it. I am not Daz, its just little ole me and i'm a typin as fast as i can:)

LOL! Comfortable with Mimic? Hardly. I think I've used it twice in the 3 years I've had it. Kinda lost interest in animations for a while too but I like what I see. I'll wait and see what you do with it for now though. No sense buying another speech utility if I have no animations in mind.