Digital Ventriloquized Actor (DIVA)
Sid Fels: co-investigator
Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson: co-investigator
Bob Pritchard: co-investigator
Marguerite Witvoet: research assistant, performer
Meryn Cadell: librettist
Helene Day-Fraser: design and costuming
Bob Pritchard writes —
“DIVAs are portable speech/song/facial synthesis systems that allow the user to move about and perform on stage and communicate within the community. Currently the speech synthesis makes use of a formant synthesizer.”