A character animation tool which associates stress values with the locations of vowels

摘要

Character animation is key to successful and engaging computer animations whether it be for media such as in movies or in computer games. A known difficulty in animation is the linking of the motions of an animated character with spoken words. The present application solves this problem by detecting the locations of vowels in a piece of speech and determining a stress value for the detected vowels and then animating the characters at the vowel locations in a manner consistent with the determined stress values. The locations of vowels are used as a trigger for a character's motion.