16. The device of claim 15 wherein the extractor is further operable to: capture expressive input via an input stream; the animator being responsive to the extractor and operable to display the graphical rendition and animate the rendered image with the first series of image frames using the expressive input, the expressive input corresponding to facial features of spoken verbiage.
16. The device of claim 15 wherein the extractor is further operable to: capture expressive input via an input stream; the animator being responsive to the extractor and operable to display the graphical rendition and animate the rendered image with the first series of image frames using the expressive input, the expressive input corresponding to facial features of spoken verbiage. 19. The device of claim 16 wherein the extractor further comprises an audio feature extractor operable to: apply feature extraction to the input stream; derive an audio stream corresponding to text from the input stream; and compute mouth movements corresponding to spoken text, further including a video feature extractor operable to extract video features from the input stream; wherein the extracted features further comprise audio features and video features, the video feature extractor being further operable to apply active animations to affect mouth, eye and profile appearances of the rendered image.