Patent ID: 7315820

Claim:
A character animation and speech tool comprising: a character library, comprising an assortment of character being capable of being rendered lifelike by computer graphic rendering image generation, and being fully interchangeable among the library assortment in relation to all other characters; a sampled human voice library, comprising one or more male, female, child, and exaggerated human caricature voice samples, each voice sample being standardized in sampling modules and time duration, each of said voice samples being fully interchangeable among the library assortment in relation to all other of said voice samples, and fully integrated therewith; a text-to-speech assembly apparatus, whereby any English word text entered by a keyboard into the application is translated to its syllabic components and both a voice syllabic component and an animation motion graph data component are introduced into an assembly timeline for editing; and complete motion graphs of lip synch animation married to sound modules of spoken syllables of speech; wherein an animation sequence can be created with substantially perfect synchronization between the lip movement of a selected character and accompanying words spoken by the character on an accompanying sound track.