Sound Off! – Factional Warfare

Greetings, true believers!  Reports of my death were. . . mostly accurate.  Sadly, working the 9 to 5 has derived me of time and energy to do regular columns.  However, that won’t stop me from doing something.  Hence, this.  Twice a month, I’ll put up a question for you all to respond to (hence the
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New Kagamine Len’s Append Power Demos

Earlier yesterday Piapro blog was updated with news on Kagamine Len’s new Append Power demos and you can listen to them below. – Migikata no Chou 40 sec short version (by NoriP) – Soundless Voice 35 sec short version (by HitoShizukuP, mixing by yama△) Do take note that the Appends are still under development and
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MMDAgent – Talk to any 3D model you want interactively!

Just recently, The International Voice Engineering Institute in University of Nagoya, uploaded a video titled 「【MMDAgent】初音ミクとおしゃべりできるソフトをつくってみた」 (TL: We created software that allows speaking with Hatsune Miku; lit.) to NicoNicoDouga, and currently becoming a hot topic on discussions. MMDAgent is a compilation of several modules of tools: voice recognition, voice synthesizing, 3D character rendering, voice interaction control and other tools. This toolkit, as stated by the contributor: "It makes conversation with a lively 3D character on screen and giving wonderful responses possible". (more after the jump)