Virtual People


You've heard of animation generators. Pick a character, enter some text, and out pops a talking avatar video. We do that. But we can also make them interactive. With behaviors defined by scripts, or by an AI, your avatars can have a mind of their own as they respond to questions and engage in dialog. Known variously as Social Agents, Embodied Agents, or UI Agents, we just call them virtual people. And they are now filling real roles in customer service, marketing, education, and more. But to build a new kind of experience you need a new kind of tool.

Try People Builder

You've heard of animation generators. Pick a character, enter some text, and out pops a talking avatar. We do that. But we can also make them interactive. With behaviors defined by scripts, or by an AI, your avatars can have a mind of their own as they respond to questions and engage in dialog. Known variously as Social Agents, Embodied Agents, or UI Agents, we just call them virtual people. And they are now filling real roles in marketing, customer service, education, and more. But to build a new kind of experience you need a new kind of tool.

Try People Builder
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The People Builder Authoring Tool

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The People Builder™ service lets you build videos and interactive modules featuring talking, animated characters. You can create presentations, simulations, agents, and more, using our cast of realistic and cartoon characters.

Get a quick start by importing a Powerpoint deck. Add a quiz slide just by filling in a form. Pick gestures and emotions to enhance your scripts. Use our integrated AI voices to get a studio-quality voiceover. You can export to standalone HTML5 and video formats, or embed your modules into your website using an embed code. Build most applications without any programming, or take advantage of a javascript API and React component for even more flexibility.

The Builder is easy to pick up, but offers a powerful and flexible content model in which virtual people are first-class citizens. Suitable for projects large and small, the Builder is all about creating engaging materials with precision and consistency. Best of all, edits are quick and easy, so you can always keep your materials current. Watch a how-to video, or start creating right now.

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The People API

Ever wonder how People Builder modules achieve run-anywhere, realistic, lip-synced character animation, with fast load times, low latency, and full interactivity? Hint. Our characters do NOT require a streaming video connection, so they can also be delivered at a fraction of the cost of the competition.

Now, Media Semantics has partnered with Amazon AWS Marketplace™ to provide the same underlying APIs for your solution.

The Character API™ uses scalable cloud computing, edge caching, and HTML5 animation to deliver a dynamic, talking character experience to any device, at scale, with sub-300ms response times for dynamic requests.

The Chatbot API™ is a cloud-based conversation engine that blends symbolic and generative techniques in a powerful framework built specifically for social agent applications.

Learn more about our API using our tutorials and github samples. Or talk to us about becoming a Solutions Partner to gain access to valuable expertise, custom models, and more.

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