What is Xend™ Messaging?

Xend™ Messaging is a personalized P2P multimedia messaging service (MMS) hosted by Vidiator that lets consumers create customized 3D avatar-based messages and send them to a recipient's mobile phone or e-mail address. Using Vidiator's patented 3D avatar technology, messages can be created and delivered using both WAP-based and Web-based services. A J2ME client is also available that allows subscribers to compose messages on their mobile phones.

Benefits

Xend™ Messaging is an exciting new source of multimedia content:

Increase premium MMS traffic
Generate new revenues
Improve customer affinity and retention
Lower costs for production and delivery of mobile content
New avatars added weekly
Wide range of professional artistic services available to create compelling exclusive content
Simple to Use
Xend™ Messaging is a simple, fun source of unique MMS content for consumers:
Browse to a WAP-based or PC-based mobile storefront, select XendMessaging
Choose a character from our extensive library of avatars
Add personalized touches such as different clothing, hair, and jewelry, etc.
Add a personal audio message recorded in sender's own voice, converted from text to speech, or selected from a library of pre-recorded greetings
Preview the message and edited as needed
Send the message to the recipient's mobile phone or e-mail address
Features:
- Robust gallery of professionally produced avatar characters
- Custom background features for personalization of avatars
- Voice audio
- Text-to-speech synthesis with multiple language support
- Pre-recorded audio overlay (AMR, WAV, QCELP, ADPCM, AAC).
- Phoneme-to-avatar synchronization
- Real-time compile of selected avatar attributes
- Immediate preview and editing capability
- Web-based and WAP-based service portal for white-label offering
- Content output encoding supporting 3GGP, 3GGP2, MPEG4 formats
- Content distribution via MMS, WAP, SMTP
- Subscriber service authentication
- Billing system interface
- Transaction logging
- SNMP alarming
- Remote content management