Short excerpt from a YouTube video in which Jeff For Local Marketing describes rapid improvements in avatar and voice technology: video avatars now reproduce voice inflections, hand/head/eye gestures and accurate voice-to-lip-syncing. He notes quality has improved substantially over the past 18 months while cost has fallen (previously very expensive).
The cool thing about this is the voices, the videos, the what we call avatars, are just getting better and better and better. With that, I want to switch gears just slightly and talk about, hey, avatars, what you're seeing now in this case is really me, but we now have the ability to make these same videos.
Using my avatar. The voice, the.
Inflections, the hand gestures, the head gestures, the eyes, all of that stuff, including voice to lip syncing, has gotten so much better. A month ago, three months ago, is pretty good. And it was very expensive. Eighteen months ago, when we first started doing this, it was incredibly expensive, and the quality was. I'm not sure I want to put my name on that. We would use it.
