My mom the avatar... plus some neat voice tools, GotVoice and WavePad
Wednesday, November 22, 2006 at 06:50AM by
Charlie O'Donnell So I started using GotVoice, which checks my cellphone voicemail and sends the files to me in an MP3 files. I love GotVoice because I really find it a pain to dial my voicemail and navigate menus to hear my voicemails. Actually, I pretty much hate the phone in general. Converting voicemail to MP3 can be a dangerous tool in the hands of anyone who works for a talking avatar company. :)
Combine that with this really powerful free audio tool I just found, WavePad, and you have my mom the avatar... live on my blog. Wavepad is like SoundRecorder on steroids.
Here she is. Click the play button on the right side of the box to hear her speak. I'm so going to get in trouble for this. Love you mom!

Reader Comments (6)
Ideally Oddcast can make avataring with audio and photo simple for consumers who want to spend under 20 minutes putting a relevant talking avatar on a web site.
I suggest having an avatar a day as a goal - make it easy enough and versatile enough so the consumer can post a new talking avatar each day (or at least each week).
This is real progress, but I suspect CEO's mom avatar is custom, plus expensive, plus not producible in say 20 minutes.
There is still some work needed before we have 100 million consumer-generated Oddcast avatars on the web, but progress is occurring.
i am laughing so hard i am gasping for air