CrazyTalk is an innovative and easy-to-use software tool for creating animated talking images from your own photograph or digital image collection. You can also animate over 150 different pre-fitted images with Reallusion optional.

Your photos are brought to life by bonding them with CrazyTalk's proprietary morphing facial wireframe, simply by matching the facial contours of the wireframe to the contours of the image. Once the bonding process is complete, CrazyTalk's 3D expression morphing technology is able to apply over 20 expressions and gestures (such as smiling, frowning, crying and laughing) to the image.

Web Edition
If you have a personal Home Page or design Web Sites, then CrazyTalk Web Edition is for you. Now your web page can include interactive "Virtual Hosts" to provide your users a greeting, aid in navigation, show presentations, provide news updates, offer suggestions, return search engine results or just about anything else a real person could do! The CrazyTalk ActiveX component and Reallusion's open architecture provides developers with script level access to properties, methods & events to control all aspects of your talking image. The CrazyTalk ActiveX web component supports all major browsers including Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or above & Netscape 4.x or 6.0
 
                                                               

CrazyTalk then gives a voice to your photos by allowing them to lipsync with audio recordings and spoken text messages. You can even record your own voice using the built-in audio recording function. This is achieved with the use of NaturalVoiceT & Text-to-Speech technology.

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 large library of useful talking images and messages you can add your custom images and messages to. This library of images and sounds represents a 500% increase over the provided content previous versions of CrazyTalk.

When you are finished, your talking image can be sent as a personalized talking animated e-greeting card. You can personalize the card further by selecting one of the included card designs, text messages, background music or graphical special effects.

You can send your talking 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.

3D Photo Morphing Technology
CrazyTalk's proprietary 3D photo morphing technology lets you import any facial image from your own photo collection and bring it to life by bonding with a wireframe. Once bonded your CrazyPal character is able to lipsync with any speech and exhibit over 20 expressions and gestures (such as smiling, frowning, crying and laughing).

• Photo fitting technology
• Auto/Semi-auto photo fitting process
• Create your own talking characters from any image file
• Provides the appearance of a real live actor from a single photo and audio
• Create crazy talking animated heads from any inanimate object

Speech Technology
CrazyTalk's speech technology analyzes the audio of your talking messages and provides lipsync between the character and the audio. To create a talking message you can record your own voice, import a wav file or type in a text message. Then Adjust your voice with the Audio Morphing Filter.

• Record your own voice
• Lipsync technology
• Adjust and alter your voice recording
• 20 emotions & gestures
• Import pre-recorded wave files
• Type any text message to be read back

Send talking/animated electronic greeting cards
Send a personalized electronic greetings card complete with your own talking character, choice of card template, text message, background music and graphic effects

• Categorized card templates
• Add your own talking character and talking message
• Include a text message
• Add background music
• Add JavaScript graphical effects
• Send all images, sound, animation is a neatly packaged email attachment

Send talking messages
Send a personalized talking messages complete with your own talking character with a choice of messenger frames

• Create messages with your own talking character and talking message
• Send as Html email, or compressed attachment
• Exe standalone player includes swappable frames to match your style
• Subtitle bar included with text messages

CrazyTalk content manager
A convenient tool to assist you in managing your collection of talking images and talking messages. Content can be added, edited, deleted and moved

• organize and categorize content files
• Add, move, delete, copy, paste categories and content files
• One-click preview function
• Quicklinks for importing or exporting

Flexible output options
A comprehensive range of different output formats for the home, office and web

• CELP (MPEG-4) audio compression to reduce file sizes
• Email file attachments compressed as CAB files for smallest possible size
• Compatible with Office documents & FlashMX
• BMP image sequence & WAV audio export

Web Edition Only

Interactive talking web based characters
Create talking web based characters controllable with JavaScript or VB script to give visitors to your web pages an interactive experience

• Auto-installable ActiveX web component
• Web component interactivity controllable using JavaScript or Visual Basic
• Script level access to property, method and event controls
• Export in Windows & RealMedia streaming media formats for publishing on your website
• Sample scripts to assist developers in learning how to control a talking image