I’ve been working on this problem for two days and I think we’ve reached a point where it’s workable. Upload sound now has better mouth movement to audio. Try it out and let us know what you think. We’re constantly trying to improve things. Here’s a blabber I made and uploaded a sound bite from a movie.
Moments after putting up the new updated upload code someone used it to great effect:
The sound quality and mouth movement isn’t as good as it could be with the Audio Upload feature. So if you’ve tried it and found that we’ve done a bad job of matching up the mouth with the voice. Well… we noticed it too and are working to fix it.
As of now Call-In-Audio is the best way to get high quality audio and mouth sync into the system.
And course microphone recording works well too. But that depends on your microphone. Macbooks seem to have great mics. Most desktop and PC laptops don’t have the best recording capabilities. My laptop a DV6700 has issues with the microphone and I’ve been fiddling with the settings for months to get it to a level that I’m happy with. Course I’m also a perfectionist because I know what a really good blabber looks and sounds like having made and listened to god knows how many blabbers.
Let me know if you have any issues. We’re working on making the Upload Audio better. I’ll post an update here soon as Alex and I get it solid.
So what’s new on Blabberize?
CALL IN AUDIO
You can use your phone to call in the audio for your blabbers! Powered by MyVox!
UPLOAD AUDIO
You can upload a mp3 of wave file for the audio of your blabber!
PRIVATE BLABBERS
Private Blabbers are back once again. Just check off the private blabber button when saving.
MATURE BLABBERS
For our users who might want to use language that isn’t safe for our younger viewers.
As always let us know if something is wrong or you need help.
What are Super Blabbers?!
Super blabber are the reason the site has been under so much construction. We’ve been preparing the site for this for 10 months now. Super Blabbers let you have conversations between blabbers. You upload a picture make it talk as you would with Classic Blabbers and then go to the scene view and add a scene and upload another picture and make it talk!
All the new features we are working on will slowly be rolled into the Super Blabbers.
We’ll have a help page shortly. For now it’s expiramental (and probably will be for some time). Go to the Make Page and play with it!
Here’s a Super Blabber I made:
Embeds are finally back up again. Click on the “Share it” button on any blabber and you’ll be presented with the embed code you need to place the blabber anywhere you like! We’ll be rolling out some resize code to help you change the size of blabbers so they fit wherever you try and put them.
Enjoy! Let us know if you have any issues.
As you’ve probably noticed the fancy shmancy theme we used to have on this blog is gone. It’s because we’re working hard on the features you guys want and need. We’ll get this blog looking back to it’s normal self soon enough. But first there are more important things that need to be done. Thank you all for being so patient!
Where is the Embed?
So we’ve received a number of emails about the lack of Embeds. The reason we don’t have the ability to embed is because we’re still mid server migration. What does that mean? It means that if we allowed you to embed your blabbers then when our server migration was complete your blabber embeds would be broken. Rather then allow for folks to have broken blabbers we have turned it off temporarily. Soon as everything is ready we’ll be reintroducing that feature.
Expected time to reintroduction (10 days)
Where is the Call In Audio?
The Call In Audio is a bit of a complicated problem with the multiple scenes. We’re resolving the issues of having multiple scenes and the way we store our data. It is a core feature and we’ll be bringing it back soon.
Expected time to Reintroduction: 2 weeks.
Random Blabbers and Various site look and flow:
Alex and I are working to bring back all the old features everyone loves. This will be an on going process.
WHY DID YOU CHANGE THE SITE!? I LIKED IT BEFORE!
Alex and I have only a finite amount of funds to keep the site alive. These features as well as the infrastructure change were necessary so that we could eventually roll out the premium version of the site so that we could support Blabberize. Had we left it with the old system and not moved forward we’d probably run out of money and have to shut down.
If you need any help feel free to reply to this post or Contact Us.
So currently we only have it so that you can add multiple blabber mouths to a scene. To Delete a Blabber mouth hit delete. To add more press the blabber mouth button again.
The features we have turned off right now are:
Video Mouths - We allow you to get video of your mouth and place it on your blabber.
Multiple Scene - We allow you to make a multi scened blabber for conversations.
Call in Audio - We’ll be putting this live in the next few days. It right now needs more testing.
These will be coming up slowly. We need to make sure we test them thorougly enough before launching them. For now the basic system is live. Let us know if you run into issues.
I’m sure some of you are asking:
What is that Green Selection Area?
That is the blabber frame. It’s what will be shown when you save your blabber. If you need a larger area select the upper left corner or bottom right and drag that point to make the area larger or smaller. Also you can move the green area over the area you’d like to show.
What’s the purpose?
When we have multiple scene blabbers up it’ll allow you to switch back and forth on the same picture between two people. It’s really cool.
Let us know if you run into anything confusing. We’re compiling a FAQ and help.
Alex and I are exhausted. We’ve been working around the clock to get this site live. We both are taking a break from the site so we can maintain sanity. If something breaks please let us know by clicking on the contact at the bottom of the page or even replying to this blog. We’ll be a little slow to respond but we’ll get around to it.
Enjoy! Let us know what you think. We look forward to seeing your blabbers.
Alex and I having been up for four days straight with minimal sleep getting things set up. We are doing our final rounds of testing and then are going to debate weather we should get some rest before we hit the switch to let all of you, our wonderful users, onto the site.
I’ll post our decision in a couple hours.