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Xend™ Messaging
What is Xend™ Messaging?
Xend™ Messaging is a customizable person-to-person (P2P) multimedia messaging service (MMS) hosted by Vidiator that lets consumers create customized 3D avatar-based messages and send them to a recipient's mobile phone or e-mail address. Using the patented Vidiator 3D avatar technology, messages can be created and delivered using both WAP-based and Web-based services. A client, available in late 2007, will allow subscribers to compose, playback, edit, and send full-motion audio and video avatar-based messages on their mobile phones.
Benefits
Xend Messaging is an exciting new source of multimedia content:
- Increases premium MMS traffic.
- Generates new revenue.
- Improves customer affinity and retention.
- Lowers production and delivery costs of mobile content.
- New avatars are added regularly.
- A wide range of professional artistic services are available to create compelling exclusive content.
Simple To Use:
Xend Messaging is a simple and fun source of unique MMS content for consumers:
- Browse to either a Vidiator hosted, white-labeled WAP- or Web-based mobile storefront, and select Xend Messaging.
- Choose a character from our extensive library of avatars.
- Add a personal audio message recorded in sender's own voice, converted from text to speech, or upload your own pre-recorded audio.
- Bring TTS messages to life with fun, expressive emoticons; for example, type :) to make the character smile.
- More than 70 SMS shorthand text-to-audio translations, for example, type "CUL8R" to make the character speak the phrase "see you later".
- Preview the message and edit as needed.
- Sign and send the message to the recipient's mobile phone or email address.
Features
- Robust gallery of professionally-produced avatar characters.
- Custom background features for personalization of avatars.
- Voice audio.
- Text-to-speech synthesis with multiple language support.
- Avatar emotive responses available in TTS messages.
- Audio translations of standard SMS shorthand notations.
- Pre-recorded audio overlay (AMR, WAV, QCELP, ADPCM, and AAC formats).
- Lifelike vocal animation.
- Real-time compilation of selected avatar attributes.
- Immediate preview and editing capability.
- Web-based and WAP-based service portal for white-label offering.
- Content output encoding supporting 3GPP, 3GPP2, MPEG4, and Windows-compatible ASF formats.
- Content distribution via MMS, WAP, and SMTP.
- Subscriber service authentication.
- Billing system interface.
- Transaction logging.
- SNMP alarms.
- Remote content management.