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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."

2 of 138 comments (clear)

  1. Huh? by Phs2501 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Shades of Ananova...

  2. this is go4tsXex by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    In addition, tHe above is far lead developers