| 摘要 |
<p>This invention consists of methods of simulating voice conversations with talking animated characters (17, 18) on a television or video screen (11). The animated characters (17, 18) talk to each other and to humans (10, 12). Each human holds a light-weight controller (47, 48) that has push buttons (14) next to a display of variable phrases or sentences (13) for each human's side of the dialog. This dialog includes alternative words (13, 26) for a human player to say to a character or for a character to say (15, 16, 20, 23, 27) or actions (Figs. 3, 7, 10) for a character to do. A human (10, 12) responds to what a character (17, 18) says or does by pressing a button (14) next to a selected phrase. An animated character then vocally responds (15 in Fig. 1) to the selected phrase as if it had been spoken by a human or as if it were the character's own words. Each scene (64) branches to subsequent scenes (65, 66, 67) and within each scene there are several branching dialog sequences (60, 61, 62, 69, 63, 68).</p> |
