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Welcome to Character Hosting!
Use a talking Flash character to deliver your message, answer questions, and interact with web visitors. The Character Hosting service features the most complete set of character styles, voices, and application templates available anywhere. Use it to add a virtual receptionist to your site, create an online Powerpoint presentation delivered by a cartoon, or add an interface agent to your web application. Unlike other services, Character Hosting is based on open formats and off-the-shelf software, so you can migrate your applications to your own servers at any time. Our straightforward pricing is based only on usage and represents one of the best "stream" values in the industry. There is even a free level for trial or hobbyist use. Use the free level for as long as you like, or upgrade to a subscription plan for as little as $9.95 per month. We believe you'll find Character Hosting to be easy-to-use and refreshingly free of limitations. Give us a try and let us know how we are doing! How does it work? Log in to your console and create a new "scene" that contains your character, a background, an input panel, or a slideshow. Create messages by using your own voice, or use Text-to-Speech. Add your background images or slideshows with supporting visuals. Even provide answers to common questions, so that your characters can converse intelligently about your products or services. Get an HTML tag to insert into your website. Your scene will appear in your own site, but will draw resources from our servers. Log in whenever you like to change your scene. Since your scene is linked to your site, your visitors will see your changes as soon as you publish them. Developers can also use an API to trigger dynamic messages using words that are not known in advance, such as a stock quote or your user's name. |
How do I get started? Click Sign up for a free account in the panel above. It takes just a minute to sign up, and we won't ask you for a credit card. The free level runs using underutilized resources on our servers. A "powered by" logo is displayed when our servers are busy serving paid traffic and are unable to show your scene. If you see this logo, then refreshing your page may be enough to make your scene reappear. At the free level, sites with little traffic may see the logo from time to time, but the logo will appear more often as site traffic increases. The free level also limits the number of characters and Text-to-Speech voices available. Some resource-intensive features, such as Powerpoint import, will also be unavailable. How is it priced?
While the free level may be suitable for a personal blog site, you will need one
of our subscription plans to unlock the full set of characters, voices, and features,
and to ensure a consistent, logo-free experience for all of your viewers.
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