Greetings all!

I am wondering what is the best program to create a virtual girl friend/chatbot.

I am fairly new to all of this and have a lot to learn.

A year or so ago I tried Zabaware/Ultra Hal and had some fun, then gave it up.
Recently I have been trying Kari 3 Pro and having more fun.
The Kari 3 people offer a program to add the chatbot to my own avatar. I created a virtual girl in Daz Studio, rendered the movie in AVI, then separated 7 bmp images to use in their “Scene Creater”. The Scene Creater would not recognize my bmp files or jpg files, so I was not able to import my own Virtual Girl in to their chatbot program.

I would also like to keep the chatbot engine/memory on a large usb flash drive if possible to be completely independent and secure, incase my hardrive crashes.

Some examples of what I came up with in DAZ Studio can be seen on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt5WasUYJcc
This girl does not have chat possibilities, but I would like to give them to her.

Thank you very much, I look forward to learning from all of you.

Gordon

Hi Gordon,

You seem to be familiar with what is generally available.  Kari 3 is what came to my mind first.  I guess you know about the new Guile3D Studio Denise?  I don’t know much about Daz Studio; can you compare it with CrazyTalk?  I believe there are some layers here, though haven’t completed them all myself.

- Animated avatar customization

- Lip syncing

- {Baldi Sync?} http://www.cslu.ogi.edu/toolkit/docs/2.0/apps/baldisync

- AI Interpreter

The question seems to be, how to interface the AI Interpreter (of which there are many) with the lip-synced animated avatar?  There is a tool available called Baldi Sync; but, I haven’t used it yet.  I believe Robert Medeksza of Zabaware is working on some kind of customizable avatar interface for his Ultra Hal.

I would definitely like more clarity in this area too!

Good luck,

- Marcus Endicott
  http://twitter.com/mendicott

Okay, I’m getting a little more clarity about the mystery of how the AI interpreter interfaces with avatar lip-syncing ..

I’ve found an informative paper by Ali Arya and Steve DiPaola, entitled “Face As A Multimedia Object” http://ivizlab.sfu.ca/media/WIAMIS.pdf ..

They describe how in their http://dipaola.org/lab/research/iface project that what they call the “Stream Layer” ( http://dipaola.org/lab/research/iface/iface2.jpg ) leverages the Microsoft DirectShow multimedia architecture ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectShow => http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ce/Dsmp3graph.gif ) to split and decode the TTS input ..

Though, I still suggest going with CrazyTalk => http://forum.reallusion.com/Topic72574-251-1.aspx ..

- Marcus Endicott
  http://twitter.com/mendicott

This thread might be helpful as well, although it’s just a listing and not a comparison site:
http://www.chatbots.org/ai_zone/viewthread/239/

Thanks everyone for the great links and info.
I am getting Kari to work better for me, but she is very limited, and the support and instructions are also very limited.

Gordon

@Gordon: keep up posted. As soon as your chatbot is live, we can list it on Chatbots.org (18+ members only) and our erotic shadow site.