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    Attending WPC & Guest Speaking at a Session on Microsoft’s...

    This week I’ll be traveling to the Microsoft 2010 Worldwide Partner Conference and I’m excited because I’ll have ‘Speaker Credentials’ at this, Microsoft’s Flagship event for Partners. I’ve been invited by Anil Reddy to speak during his sessions and talk about our successes recently that were made possible thanks to our partnership with Microsoft. I’ll also be sharing how we’re leveraging the new programs and product...
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Archive for September 3, 2006

CrazyTalk to Create Flash Videos

Sep 3rd

Posted by jcoburn in Applications

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I’ve been looking at Text to Speech Flash applications trying to find that something that would allow me to dynamically generate a TTS based flash animation and have had zero luck.  However, during my search I came across crazytalk from www.reallusion.com. This thing is hilarious. Unfortunately, it wants you to use it’s own ActiveX plugin to get the full effect of the animation and I’m hesitant to install a plug-in or require others to use my plug-in. It would be ideal if they supported direct to Flash animations. However, I did come up with a reasonable substitute. 

I used CrazyTalk to create a Video and saved it in MPEG-4 format. Then I used  the Riva FLV Encoder (free tool from www.rivavx.com) to convert my AVI to a FLV file and am displaying it below using the FLV plugin tool mentioned earlier in my blog.

The video is a picture of myself and my wife and the audio, is well you’ll figure out who it is. Pay attention the blinking and the mouth movements, this program is really pretty nicely done.

[gv data="http://www.jesscoburn.com/jessclinton.flv"][/gv]

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Google Analytics is Free & Open!

Sep 3rd

Posted by jcoburn in The Cool Stuff

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In case you haven’t heard you no longer need an ‘invite’ or have to wait to get a google analytics account. It’s now open and free to anyone to instantly create an account.

Google analytics is the result of Google’s purchase of urchin, a pretty decent web stats (ok, fine analytics) which previously was pretty pricey if you wanted to deploy it on your site. The downside is code has to be loaded on every page and it then calls a link out to google and stores your data there. Honestly, I enjoy it. When comparing Google’s analytics to our own Smarterstats install, I think you’ll find they both have their advantages and disadvantages, however smarterstats I think provides more in depth information where google provides a nice overview.

If you don’t know where to find google or google analytics, it’s http://www.google.com/analytics

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