Occupying a spot among the 3 highest selling video games for a number of weeks following its launch on 4th February, Dying Light 2 Stay Human is a roaring success. Techland cites Speech Graphics as “the best choice on the market… a magnificent set of tools for facial animation”.

Speech Graphics provided The Tomb Raider with SGX, their animation processor, and the supporting Maya tools to help them team produce thousands of dialog lines of high fidelity facial animation.

Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor is an action role-playing video game set in The Lord of the Rings universe. It was developed by Monolith Productions and Warner Brothers Games, and was released in September 2014. Shadow of Mordor has won a DICE Award for Outstanding Achievement in Animation, Game of the Year at GDC and Excellence in Animation at SXSW, along with many other accolades.

Using SGX and the Speech Graphics Maya plug-in The Coalition and Microsoft Studios was able to swiftly generate thousands of lines of high-quality facial animation for multiple characters for in-game interactions and cut scenes.

The team at Undead Labs and Microsoft Studios leveraged the flexibility and speed of SGX and our Maya tools to animate hundreds of characters saying thousands of lines of dialog.

UCSF Decodes neural activity to produce synthesized speechWe created the visualization of the muscles activations detected in the brains of test subjects that were used to drive a speech synthesizer developed by UCSF Department of Neurological Surgery.