RUTH

Some information on integrating R.U.T.H. and MisterHouse,

Here is an exerpt from the list response

<quote> Hi Pete and Everyone, I've been playing with RUTH talking head for a while on an FC8 Linux box. I use it in conjunction with AT&T NaturalVoices, Mike and Charles and Cepstral David. Those renderers will supply the phonemes RUTH needs to realize the head movements. I like the quality of the AT&T over Festival voices. Charles makes a nice butler. I made a change in the RUTH source to allow hiding the RUTH window. This comes in handy when generating the movie files, so RUTH wont take focus on the desktop. I also added phonemes for AT&T Charles. I made a script to convert text to a RUTH talking head video (.avi format) using the open source mjpegtools. The script has a simple algorithm to guess appropriate gestures/head movements based on the speech. It supports AT&T NaturalVoices and Cepstral Voices. I use WINE to run the AT&T renderer which is located in my mh local directory. That and other things in the script may require some custom tweaking. I attached a gzipped tar file with what I have changed containing patches for the ruth source. Also the perl script txt2ruth.pl, feel free to add/modify. Since the License from Rutgers is non-transferable you'll have to get the ruth source from them at http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/%7Evillage/ruth/ -Rick </quote>

Ricks tarball is here ruth10.tar.gz