Automated Lip Synchronisation Technology for Video Games Industry

A Scottish SME is developing the most advanced lip synchronisation solution for the video games and television industries, creating the most natural looking speech animation in multiple languages. Development time and cost of production is greatly reduced. The company seeks video games, animation or avatar developers, motion capture or tv production companies to license the technology or to later distribute the product to a local customer base and provide technical consultancy and support.

A Scottish SME which has spun out of the University of Edinburgh is developing the most advanced lip synchronisation solution for the video games industry.
The audio driven method analyses an input audio signal to move an animated character’s face in synchrony with the audio.
The product is being developed in multiple languages to allow easy multilingual animation and localisation.
The company is presently offering a service solution, which provides the most natural looking speech animation currently available, for a low cost, for today’s most realistic games.

- Audio driven animation can completely replace the more expensive and labour intensive technique of performance-driven animation, or can be used in conjunction with it.
- The lip synchronisation technique used creates the most natural looking speech animation currently available in the world.
- Will instantly create multilingual variations of a video game.

Source: Enterprise Europe Network – consortium Sud-Ouest France (11 GB 46P4 3MMK)

Opportunities

Technology transfer
Seeking technical partners
Business Development

Scientific typology

- Type of partner sought: Industry. - Specific area of activity of the partner: (i) video games developers (ii) animation companies & avatar developers (iii) motion capture companies (iv) tv production companies. - Task to be performed by the partner sought: Either to license the technology in order to reduce the cost and time taken to realise lip and speech synchronisation, or to distribute the product to a local customer base and provide technical consultancy and support.