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Broadcast: Transmitting Avatar Signing • Capture live interpreter

Audio/Video Stream. Capture System. TV Set Top Box. Animation Stream. Applications of Virtual Human Signing Prof John Glauert, Dr Ralph Elliott, Dr Richard Kennaway, Judy Tryggvason, Kevin Parsons, Vince Jennings School of Computing Sciences, UEA Norwich, UK.

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Broadcast: Transmitting Avatar Signing • Capture live interpreter

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  1. Audio/Video Stream Capture System TV Set Top Box Animation Stream Applications of Virtual Human SigningProf John Glauert, Dr Ralph Elliott, Dr Richard Kennaway, Judy Tryggvason, Kevin Parsons, Vince JenningsSchool of Computing Sciences, UEA Norwich, UK Broadcast: Transmitting Avatar Signing • Capture live interpreter Motion capture of face, hands and body • Low bandwidth transmission of motion data Data for “bones” of a 3D avatar • User can control avatar presentation Character, Size, Position, Orientation, Colour Web Services: Weather Forecasts • Full set of phrases known and recorded in advance Versions captured in natural sign language • Non signer can construct forecasts Form-based tool selects standard weather phrases System generates content in three sign languages • Avatar Web Plugin for Internet Explorer Sequences made by seamless blending sign phrases Live service online in the Netherlands Soon in UK via RNID Summary: Mostly cloudy. Some rain in the east for a time. Rest of Today Largely dry, cloudy and fairly dull, but brightening up from northwest. Wind becoming gentle northwesterly. Maximum temperature 18 deg C (64 deg F). Issued:12:00, 03 Oct 2003 Signing Content on eGovernment Websites • Signed commentary on eGovernment forms Help information in sign language Norfolk County Council, Viataal (NL), Hamburg (DE) • Integrated with standard content management Multilingual support includes signing Minimal change to web services logic Content created by synthesis from notation, not capture Deaf Connexions linked to Norfolk County Council Virtual Guido avatar from Televirtual Limited http://www.visicast.cmp.uea.ac.uk

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