{"id":370,"date":"2010-02-06T13:20:40","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T21:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adamsonic.com\/blog\/?p=370"},"modified":"2010-02-06T13:21:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T21:21:12","slug":"text-to-movie-storyboard-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adamsonic.com\/blog\/text-to-movie-storyboard-of-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Text-to-movie: Storyboard of the future?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Text-to-speech systems have been in development for a very long time.\u00c2\u00a0 One that I use frequently for creating placeholder dialog in games is the AT&T Labs Natural Voices text-to-speech demo<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a free service that enables the user to type out any phrase and then download an audio file with that phrase spoken by any number of synthesized accents.\u00c2\u00a0 For the most part they sound very realistic!\u00c2\u00a0 The only caveat is that some words need to be spelled phonetically to translate well.<\/p>\n

So it was with great pleasure that I discovered the website Xtranormal.com<\/a>. Xtranormal has a web-based procedurally generated storyboard application as well as a downloadable version.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve attached my first text-to-video project as an example.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a parody of Stanley Kubrik’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.<\/p>\n

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Here is my source.\u00c2\u00a0 Note the icons that were dragged and dropped into the script to trigger animations, camera positions, facial expressions and even a sound effect!<\/p>\n

\"2010_script\"<\/a> What I like about this software is that it makes the process of concepting film very easy, and allows for the rapid expression of ideas.\u00c2\u00a0 Video is rendered within the browser as well!<\/p>\n

There are a few bugs that they still need to work out, but I’d imagine that they will fix them soon.\u00c2\u00a0 If you move the mouse too much while editing in the browser, it will reset your project and there are some issues with formatting video during the publishing process.\u00c2\u00a0 Overall, this is a fun and useful set of tools for kids and professionals alike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Text-to-speech systems have been in development for a very long time.\u00c2\u00a0 One that I use frequently for creating placeholder dialog in games is the AT&T Labs Natural Voices text-to-speech demo.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a free service that enables the user to type out any phrase and then download an audio file with that phrase spoken by any […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,8,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adamsonic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adamsonic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adamsonic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adamsonic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adamsonic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.adamsonic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390,"href":"https:\/\/www.adamsonic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adamsonic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adamsonic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adamsonic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}