Tony is a Geek

Okay, so you may have noticed that recently, I made a 3D Avatar / Digital Human using the Unity 3D engine and connected it up to the IBM Watson SDK . Well, straight after doing that piece of work, I thought...hmmm... I also have the Unreal Engine installed on my laptop too, I wonder if there is an IBM Watson SDK sample app that could use that engine to do what I did above... A quick DuckDuckGo search later and yep, here is a gitHub . A quick 50,000ft difference check is - what are you more comfortable writing your code in? C# from Microsoft (Unity) or C/C++ (Unreal Engine) What have you had more experience in using? So, why am I pointing this out?  Well, I happened to stumble over a Digital Human that is created and controlled by the Unreal Engine....and well, it's pretty awesome! My Unity / "couple of days" effort project versus this (probably) quite a few £££££ effort doesn't really compare - but what it does show is that this level of technology and ef...

Totally, 100% selfish plug :-) https://developer.ibm.com/recipes/tutorials/create-a-3d-digital-human-with-ibm-watson-assistant-and-unity3d Have you ever thought to yourself: y'know, I want my own HOLLY ( from Red Dwarf ) I have "skills"..... I'm a computer software developer..... I have "stuff" on my laptop that I've installed / used a few times, but forgotten what it was for again.... .....and you have a spare 30-40 minutes?  (and $35) Then look no further, welcome to the world of Unity, UMA2, SALSA, IBM Watson SDK and the IBM Watson Assistant API service! I wrote an article that may be useful to follow if you want to do the above sort of thing on a rainy Saturday morning.... https://developer.ibm.com/recipes/tutorials/create-a-3d-digital-human-with-ibm-watson-assistant-and-unity3d (and yes, I know the TTS is not that accurate, I didn't give it much/if any training, so I'm surprised it did as well as it did!) ...