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Pulse Veepers™ 3.0 Features Automated Lip-Synching From Automatic Sync Technologies
2/3/2003

Interactive 3D Humans and Other Characters Feature Built-In Lip-Synching Support

Pulse, the leader in interactive rich media technologies for email and the Web, has incorporated the ProductionSync and InstantSync technologies from California-based Automatic Sync Technologies in the Pulse Veepers 3.0, the latest version of Pulse’s virtual character creation software. ProductionSync™ and InstantSync™ functionality has been integrated such that interactive 3D characters created in Pulse Veepers instantly include full lip-synchronization functionality. Information entered via audio (or converted to audio using the text-to-speech support found in Veepers) is processed by the ProductionSync and InstantSync components, which then automatically drive the character’s lips to realistically deliver the information. No manual animation of the character's mouth movements is necessary, and the lip-synching can be further refined using “transcript assistance” found in Veepers, whereby a text version of the spoken audio helps dictate the realistic lip movements of the character.

“The two biggest selling points of the Pulse Veepers technology are the fluid realism of the resulting characters and the ease and speed with which they can be created,” said Mark Yahiro, president of Pulse. “The Automatic Sync Technologies software delivers on both points, and is unrivaled in terms of performance and realism.” [click here to see a Veeper of Mark]

About Automatic Sync Technologies

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Automatic Sync Technologies is a leading provider of automated audio synchronization and searching tools and software for a wide range of multimedia production applications in gaming, animation, online training and electronic communication. Using leading-edge speech processing and pattern identification technology, Automatic Sync Technologies provides clients with improved production quality and shorter production cycle times through the creation of synchronized multimedia content. Automatic Sync Technologies can be contacted at www.automaticsync.com

About Pulse

Based in San Francisco, Pulse is a privately funded provider of enterprise-level rich media technologies for online marketing, learning, CRM, medical visualization/ instruction, and other interactive forms of online communication. Investors include Mobius Venture Capital (formerly Softbank VC), AOL/TimeWarner, Autodesk and El Dorado Ventures. The company's growing client base and strategic partner list includes Anheuser-Busch, AOL/Time Warner, Apple, BMG, Boeing, Cisco, IBM, Motorola, SBC, and Toyota. Pulse is located at 654 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105, (415) 348-4000, or www.pulse3d.com.

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For more information on Pulse, contact Garth Chouteau: garth@pulse3d.com / 415-348-4027

For more information on Automatic Sync Technologies, contact Kevin Erler: kevin@automaticsync.com / 510-582-3437

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