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Automatic Machinima News-Broadcasting

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the almost-listenable dept.

MattSparkes writes "Researchers claim to have produced software that automatically generates timely video news bulletins, presented by computer-animated characters, which could revolutionise current affairs broadcasting. The system, called News at Seven, takes RSS news feeds and does some formatting before passing it to an avatar from Half-Life 2 to read out. Based on keywords, the system also draws in video from YouTube and images from Flickr to supplement the speech."

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  1. Microsoft Sucks by thelifter · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This is another desperate attempt by M$ to compete with Linux. My Linux box has been up for 3 years without a reboot while my Windows box has to be restarted all the time. Also, C++ is better than Java. (Generated by the Standard Slashdot Flaimbait Comment Automaton)

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