Alyx Does the News

[CSN NewsBot]

What do you get when you cross the daily news with Half-Life 2? You get News at Seven with Alyx Vance. The system, developed at Northwestern University, automatically finds new news stories, auto-formats them, and uses text-to-speech technology to give Alyx her "voice."

In this, our first deployment of the system, the show produced is a three-minute daily news update, featuring national, international, and human-interest stories, with commentary from blogs on the national story. After the material has been assembled, the system is ready to present the news using preset scripts. The engine, and our extensions to it, allows us to present believable human-like newscasters as well as more imaginative scenes and sets that are only possible because the show is virtual. We also use techniques to make the generated vocal audio more interesting and believable.

For more information, see the ABC News segment on the virtual show, and also a sample of News at Seven can be found here.

[ph03nix(k)]

Edited by [user="246117"] @ [time="1160254523"]

in city 17, the news does you

[kerosine99]

They need to come up with a less irritating voice.

[DevgruSeal H.E]

kerosine99 wrote..

They need to come up with a less irritating voice.

Yeah, I was expecting an Alyx-like voice...



Also, get a less laggy processor in the Eli scene..

[WooFerPPK]

Edited by [user="16650"] @ [time="1160261621"]

interesting, needs a lot more emotion though...

[meowmeow]

10 GB? Good god man.. is this like Oblivion? But suckier?

[Syx]

It's neat, but what the hell?

Replace the voice with alyx's sexy voice.

Add body and facial movement.

NUDE ALYX MOD!11!!

[V.C. Sniper]

This shows how 1337 VALVe's Source Engine and its Facial Animation System version 2 is. LAWL They choose HL2 cuzz of this 1337N3$$!1!

[HACKER HELL STORM]

that was retarded.

[mr spoon]

Impressive use of Source's incredible lip syncing to voice system, but that computer generated voice software has always sucked, and they should have created some new models as newsreaders, it just looks weird like that.

[DevgruSeal H.E]

Something with Alyx wearing professional business-setting clothes...

[Shadow]

I heard The News is pretty satisfied. He had a good time.

[Threeboy]

NUDE PATCH.

[ALT+F4]

The Brits had something almost exactly like that online years ago. I can't remember what it/she was called, much less the URL but it, too, was very unexciting, unnecessary and bandwidth-consumptive.

[Syx]

ALT+F4 wrote..

but it, too, was very unexciting, unnecessary and bandwidth-consumptive.

Like myspace?