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Xend™ Photo
Create Your Own Avatars
Xend™ Photo is a customizable person-to-person (P2P) multimedia messaging service (MMS) hosted by Vidiator® that lets consumers create avatar-based messages from their own photos. Using the patented Vidiator 3D avatar technology, photo-based MMS messages can be created and delivered to a mobile phone or e-mail address using our Web-based, white-labeled services.
Vidiator hosted solutions provide turn-key delivery of technology and services, with rapid integration into our customers’ enterprise environments at minimal deployment cost. As a hosted solution, the Vidiator Xend 3D avatar-based messaging platform eliminates ongoing maintenance costs while allowing rapid product development and feature release cycles. The Vidiator network messaging centers are built on carrier-grade processing architecture and deployed in case-hardened data centers. Global 24/7 support is standard.
Simple To Use:
Xend Photo is a simple, fun source of unique MMS content for consumers:
- Browse to a Web-based mobile storefront and select the white-labeled Xend Photo application.
- Upload an image to be converted to an avatar.
- Follow a simple 1-2-3 step process to animate the image, add personalized audio, and send the message.
- Audio can be recorded in sender's own voice, converted from text to speech (TTS), or uploaded as a pre-recorded file.
- Bring characters to life with fun, expressive emotive responses (applies to TTS messages).
- Preview the message and edit as desired.
- Send the message to the recipient's mobile phone or e-mail address.
Features
- Accepts standard image file formats (JPG, PNG, GIF, and BMP).
- Accepts standard audio file formats (WAV, MP3, AAC, ADPCM, AIFF, AMR, and QCP).
- Real time voice audio record and playback.
- Text-to-speech synthesis with multiple language support.
- Specify avatar emotive responses in TTS messages using engaging emoticons. or well known SMS shorthand notation, for example, :) to cause the character to smile.
- Realistic lifelike vocal animation.
- Real-time compile of selected avatar attributes.
- Industry standard audio overlays (AMR, WAV, QCELP, ADPCM, and AAC).
- Immediate preview and editing capability.
- Web-based service portal for white-label offering.
- Content output encoding supporting 3GPP, 3GPP2, MPEG4, and Windows-compatible ASF formats.
- Content distribution via MMS, and SMTP.
- Subscriber service authentication.
- Billing system interface.
- Transaction logging.
- SNMP logging.