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I was just watching Polar Express - a kids movie - with my kids. The actors
are computer generated. I thought at first they were real! I am wondering
that in maybe 10-20 years we won't need actors other than their voices!

Tam



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Tam Heid the Baw- goal! wrote:
> I was just watching Polar Express - a kids movie - with my kids. The actors
> are computer generated. I thought at first they were real! I am wondering
> that in maybe 10-20 years we won't need actors other than their voices!

Why voices?

Jerry
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Jerry Avins wrote:

> Tam Heid the Baw- goal! wrote:
>
>> I was just watching Polar Express - a kids movie - with my kids. The
>> actors
>> are computer generated. I thought at first they were real! I am wondering
>> that in maybe 10-20 years we won't need actors other than their voices!
>
>
> Why voices?
>
> Jerry

You stole my question
If you have enough speech samples you should be able to determine all
the formants. So who needs the person? Only problem I see is mimicking
cadence and mannerisms. As that is "meat and potatoes" of theatrical
impersonators, they must be definable in some way -- perhaps not YET
mathematically.

Richard Owlett wrote:
> Jerry Avins wrote:
>
>> Tam Heid the Baw- goal! wrote:
>>
>>> I was just watching Polar Express - a kids movie - with my kids. The
>>> actors
>>> are computer generated. I thought at first they were real! I am
>>> wondering
>>> that in maybe 10-20 years we won't need actors other than their voices!
>>
>>
>> Why voices?
>>
>> Jerry
>
> You stole my question
> If you have enough speech samples you should be able to determine all
> the formants. So who needs the person? Only problem I see is mimicking
> cadence and mannerisms. As that is "meat and potatoes" of theatrical
> impersonators, they must be definable in some way -- perhaps not YET
> mathematically.

Fauxtography has already debased the value of pictorial evidence. I
don't see why voiceprinting won't soon follow suit, if it hasn't
already. I worked for a fellow who was hired to adjust a typewriter so
that the police expert couldn't distinguish its output from the one a
blackmailer used, thereby getting the man a "not guilty" verdict. Years
ago, I built an automated instrument that made peptides to order. One
day soon, I expect to see the ability to fake DNA evidence.

Jerry
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Technically, I don't think the actors were computer generated. I think they
took live action film and painted it. There's a movie out now called scanner
darkly that use a similar technique.

-clark

"Tam Heid the Baw- goal!" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:4596b68e$0$18616$[email protected]. .
> I was just watching Polar Express - a kids movie - with my kids. The
actors
> are computer generated. I thought at first they were real! I am wondering
> that in maybe 10-20 years we won't need actors other than their voices!
>
> Tam
>
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BTW, movie stars aren't in any danger. If all the actors were computer
generated who would have the drunken racist rants on the sides of roads in
malibu? Maybe one CG person could be big but they need real people to help
market the movie, their celebrity, etc.

-Clark

"Tam Heid the Baw- goal!" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:4596b68e$0$18616$[email protected]. .
> I was just watching Polar Express - a kids movie - with my kids. The
actors
> are computer generated. I thought at first they were real! I am wondering
> that in maybe 10-20 years we won't need actors other than their voices!
>
> Tam
>
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