Getting Started

Install and experience it!

The current system only has Japanese models for speech processing, so the default contents are for Japanese language only. We actually has an English speech model assets already, and are now working to make English version.

Prerequisites

Audio input device is required. MMDAgent-EX will open the default audio device for audio input.

Disk room of about 300MBytes are required to store the system data and default content. On desktop OS, all the downloaded files are stored under user’s home directory.

Network connection is required to download the first-time system data. About 200 MBytes of data will be downloaded at start up.

If you can, it’s better to move to a quiet room or office environment. Speech recognition may suffer from noises.

Installation

Install the beta app from the download page. Follow the link for your OS and proceed for installation. Only minimal set of binaries are installed.

On Mac OS, open the downloaded .dmg file and move the App into Application.

On Windows, open the downloaded .zip file and put them anywhere you like.

On Linux, open the downloaded .tgz and put them anywhere you like.

First time launch

The app first downloads all system data and default dialogue content from system server.

Just launch the app to start! On iOS and Android, tap the installed App icon. On desktop OS, run the executable “MMDAgent-EX” or “MMDAgent-EX.exe”. Stay until all the data has been downloaded.

Try it out!

After successfull start up, the default dialogue content is playing now. You can talk with to the default sample agent. Take a brief look at the following pages to know basics.

Startup screen

Play with another content

As an extra, you can try another Web content we have prepared to experience Web-based content deliverling and management. It is a fun-made real-time rendered dancing content originally built on MikuMikuDance by creators. Although there are no speech interaction in the content, you can see the power of MMD-based anime-like rich character expression, being rendered on real-time with high frame rate.

Warning

The example is fun-made based, will play anime-like character dancing with a song.

To start, just tap the link below! If it does not work, paste the link to the window or restart with the link as argument. (See the detailed instruction)