[mh] Animated face

[Thomas H. <tho...@my...>]

Just getting back into MH after an absence. I have been using MH for many years now (10+), and have always wanted an animated face. Now that animation has gotten better and more mainstream, I thought I would see if I could find an animated face to go with my MH installation (ours is called "Rosie", after the famous robot on The Jetsons. I even have ATT natural female voice, but no face). 

So far I found this:

http://www.imagineerieing.com/mirror_mirror.html

It does not use sound card input to animate the mouth, but it does use the microphone input. So simply placing a mic in front of the speakers makes the mouth move when Rosie (MH) speaks. Of course, I would like a face more appropriate, but for now, it will work. In the end, I would like to build a robot body, and put a 7" monitor in place for the face with software running that animates the face when speech is produced. 

As far as the PC I am using, I recently got a low power system off ebay and it runs MH perfectly, and uses much lower power then my old dual core system. XP Pro is the OS, so I need something that will run on windows.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250540444407&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT#ht_1118wt_1166

If anyone knows of a better animated face program (something more customizable maybe), please pass the info along.