Welcome to the ultimate human interface, CrazyTalk 4.
CrazyTalk is an innovative and easy-to-use software tool for creating animated talking characters and digital hosts for DVD projects, websites, and e-mail messaging from your own photograph or digital image collection. Animate any person, animal, or illustration with CrazyTalk's easy-to-use professional editing tools.
Your photos are brought to life in amazing animation by fitting them with CrazyTalk's proprietary Facetrix, facial morphing technology. Sounds complicated, but CrazyTalk's tools make animating any photo or image extremely easy. Simply match the 4 control points of inside the fitting wizard to the corresponding facial features of your photo. Once the fitting process is complete, CrazyTalk's 3D expression morphing technology is able to apply unlimited expressions and gestures (such as smiling, frowning, crying and laughing) directly to the image.
CrazyTalk's then gives a voice to your photos by allowing them to lipsync with audio recordings and spoken text messages using the exclusive Expressix speech animation technology. You can even record your own voice using the built-in audio recording function and your PC microphone. The automatic lipsync can be precisely refined using the CrazyTalk Media Studio Timeline editor allowing you easy access to each lip shape key-frame for custom editing control. Further edit audio once imported or recorded to the Timeline with the Audio Morphing Filter capable of disguising any voice or allowing you to fine tune the voice parameters for a perfect vocal. Complete your project with music by adding an imported wav file to the new second layer audio track. Control the second audio track mix with your voiceover easily to create a complete spoken and atmospheric audio environment.
The CrazyTalk File Manager assists you in visually organizing your talking image & talking message collection in a single convenient location. You can create your own categories then cut, copy, paste and delete CrazyTalk content files. The CrazyTalk File Manager also includes a library of useful talking images and messages you can add your custom images and messages to. Preview your talking images easily with thumbnail previews of every CrazyTalk image. Grow your image and script file library and manage it with total control using the simple CrazyTalk File Manager library tools.
The CrazyTalk Media Studio gives you absolute control in a professional editing environment through the innovative linear Timeline editor. The Timeline editor holds access to each CrazyTalk animation track and their rollout parameters, including Voice, Facial expressions, SFX special effects, Head movement, Shoulder movement, eye control, lip shapes, and second layer audio for importing background music. This type of control gives you complete management of your CrazyTalk animation projects with familiar keyframe editing tools designed for ease-of-use.
All new exciting features like, Emotives and Special Effects (SFX) make your CrazyTalk creations even more satisfying and entertaining. The Emotives library is a set of complete animation track presets that allow you to master the Timeline in a single click. Emotives are mood based animation combinations of facial expressions and SFX all designed to portray a consistent theme when added to your project. For example, clicking a Happy Emotive will instantly prepare your talking project with various smiles, eye winks, SFX and other facial expressions all emphasing the happy mood, while still delivering multiple expressions for a more natural human performance.
Once your project is complete CrazyTalk offers all new support for popular video editing, website, and message output options. Now your CrazyTalk animations can be exported in full-screen digital video making is possible to use CrazyTalk with any video project for the home, office, or professional entertainment purposes. CrazyTalk's media output size is enhanced allowing you set custom video output ranging from small format video for distribution via the web or mobile projects ranging to high-resolution full screen NTSC or PAL full-screen video formats. Project's can be cropped to designate isolated area output or exported in full-view. Now your CrazyTalk creations can be used to the limits of your imagination.
The Internet Explorer web player puts your CrazyTalk creations into websites with the click of a button. Add animated talking guides to your website and see your webpage come to life delivering all new high-quality 2.5D animation allowing your website to jump off the computer screen in vividly compelling animation. Support all browsers and even Macintosh users by exporting your animated characters using streaming media web video in RealMedia and Windows Streaming Media formats.
Go on the road with CrazyTalk Mobile export features. Now creating mobile content for use on popular phones such as Nokia and Panasonic is simple using the Mobile export wizard inside CrazyTalk. Your mobile friends, family, and business partners can enjoy exciting mobile content created with CrazyTalk and optimized for sharing through MPEG4, MMS, and many mobile handsets.
Messaging with CrazyTalk is fun when you share CrazyTalk animated messages as personalized talking e-greeting cards and instant messengers. You can customize included cards and messenger frames by selecting unique design, writing text messages, importing background music or adding special effects. You can send your talking messenger or card image in a variety of formats including HTML, self running .EXE file or an .AVI movie. Frame styles can be changed to fit your style and personality.

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Create and control a virtual cast of live talking characters ready to deliver an animated vocal performance for your video, web, mobile or messaging projects. Just a single photograph, recorded or imported audio, and CrazyTalk's powerful facial morphing animation technology is all you need to begin creating speaking actors, guides, and digital hosts adding perfect personalities to any multimedia experience.

• Full-Screen Video for DVD,
  Home Movies, & Entertainment

Your movies will come to life with a virtual cast of animated speaking actors you create in just moments using your own digital photos, recorded or imported audio and CrazyTalk. Now telling stories for any video or DVD project is revolutionized. Your home movies can now feature fully animated talking actors created from any digital photo making it easy to add animated narrators to your DVD featuring family members, ancestors, or even let the family pet tell the story. CrazyTalk gives you the power to transform any photo into a starring role as an animated talking character for any video project. CrazyTalk Media Studio is the complete choice for working with video.

• Digital Video for Professional
  Video Production

Take complete control over CrazyTalk's production process with the Timeline Editor inside the fully featured CrazyTalk Media Studio. The Timeline Editor gives video producers and animators complete keyframe control over each animation track. The animation tracks allow you to set keyframes and parameters for animation and performance of the voice track, facial expressions, head movement, shoulder movement, eyes, mouth shape (lips), and second layer audio for background music or sound effects. Master every level of animation control and export your talking characters in NTSC or PAL full-screen digital video ready for import into any popular video editor adding a complete virtual cast to any production. CrazyTalk Media Studio has all the tools you need for pro quality video output.

• Animated E-mail for
  the whole family

Sharing fun animated e-cards and greetings is easy and with CrazyTalk you get the tools to create unique animated e-cards, e-mail, and online greetings. CrazyTalk enables you to send animated electronic greeting cards complete with a talking character made from any digital photo. You can personalize these greeting cards with your own CrazyTalk talking image and talking message made by importing audio, recording live audio, or created synthetically with Text-to-Speech. Greeting Card templates are selectable from a gallery with more electronic greeting card designs available online. You can add background music from the music library or you can import a midi file, you can also add special effects to any e-greeting card.

• Send E-Greeting Cards with talking photos, music and special effects.

Personalize your electronic greeting cards with a text message, as well as 'To' & 'From' text fields. For all text fields you can select the text font, size, color and style. Once your card is ready you can select to Package the card saving it to your local system or you can choose to immediately send it via email. When sending a card all content files are attached as data to allow immediate playback (image, speech, background music, graphical effect, etc.)

• Interactive content for Websites

CrazyTalk Live creates interactive talking content for your web site. Talking messages can be exported using .wmv & .rm streaming media formats which can be directly published on your website or imported into tools like FlashMX. Mobile 3gpp video and MMS compatible content takes any CrazyTalk creation to the mobile masses. For truly interactive content the CrazyTalk web player for Internet Explorer can be controlled by JavaScript giving you the ability to create truly interactive web content. CrazyTalk Live and CrazyTalk Media Studio have all the tools necessary to create and publish talking Virtual hosts for your website.

• Embed Virtual web hosts as an IE Web Player or Streaming Media Video

The CrazyTalk web player for Internet Explorer provides any web developer with tools to quickly create and export web pages with talking virtual web hosts. Advanced developers who desire deeper script level access to properties, methods & events to control all aspects of the virtual web host will find full access to this code. The CrazyTalk web player for Internet Explorer is auto-installable and protected by a VeriSign certificate, installation of the 50k player is quick and easy for any new viewer of CrazyTalk web content.

Streaming video for the web is also easily exported from CrazyTalk supporting any browser or operation system. The CrazyTalk Windows streaming media or Real Media is able to be exported from any CrazyTalk project along with HTML pages automatically with the streaming media video automatically embedded and ready to customize or upload to your website. CrazyTalk LIVE or CrazyTalk Media Studio has all the tools you need to create talking virtual hosts for your web pages.

• Create mobile media animation
  with CrazyTalk

CrazyTalk is on the move featuring instant export for many popular mobile platforms. Send animated talking character video messages to mobile handsets supporting MMS/3g mobile content.

CrazyTalk is the future of mobile messaging. Representing the pinnacle of the messaging evolution, Multimedia Messaging will become the default mode of advanced messaging with your mobile phone. Create talking mobile video messages easily with CrazyTalk.

• CrazyTalk for
  Mobile Media Marketing

With such a strong penetration rate of the mobile phone, brands need to be thinking about how mobile media strategies will help shape their communications in the coming years, particularly with the advent of richer mobile media.With increased interest in MMS which enables the sending of photos, many brands are considering offering applications like peer-to-peer photo/video sharing -- applications that best leverage camera phones and enable even greater involvement and interaction.

As consumers begin to think more about the growing functionality of their mobile handsets, capabilities not available in past years such as a built-in camera can now be looked at as an important feature. Mobile media companies, handset manufacturer, carriers and brands are all taking note. 2005 and beyond will see brands taking mobile to the next level by offering services that genuinely entertain audiences and this is where longer-lasting loyalty will be built.