On Sat, 10 Feb 2001 11:12:56 -0800 Ned Konz <ned at bike-nomad.com> wrote:
>> For those wondering, Avatar is a parmeterized 3D model of a face.
>> You can tweak sliders to change it's expression, or select from
>> a menu of predefined expressions such as "surprise" and "anger".
>>
>> No animation that I saw, but it would clearly be easy to in-between
>> to morph from one expression to another.
>
>It would be entertaining to hook it up to the Speaker stuff so that the face 
>would move while the voice was speaking.

It seems Luciano is already on the trail. He added this to the html page sometime after publishing the project:

"The idea here is to animate expressive 3D faces synchronized with either a
speech synthesizer (such as KlattVoice) or with John Maloney's phoneme recognizer."

Cheers,
Bob