7. The method of claim 6 wherein automatically animating lips associated with the computer-modeled character comprises: using a sound analysis routine at the user computing device at the second location to identify a phonetic sound represented by the text; and determining a lip animation based on the identified phonetic sound.
6. The method of claim 1 wherein the electronic representation of human speech in the control script comprises speech described by text, and wherein: animating lip movement of the computer-modeled character displayed on the display device at the user computing device comprises automatically animating lips associated with the computer-modeled character in response to the text-described speech.