This is not exactly a TS question, however, maybe I can find some good advice here if there are any experienced animators, especially character animators who have used PoserPro or CT6.
I spent about a half hour with TS's facial animator yesterday. Still alot of reading and experimenting to do when I get the time to play around with it, but fairly quick to get started for a first attempt. Seems it can do a few tricks, but I'm also looking into a couple of other programs, hopefully someone here maybe has had experience with?
I've watched most of the video tuts on CT6 (CrazyTalk6), and also downloaded the manual and checked out just a few basic features. As far as I could tell.....
CT6 appears to be all 2D, also, you really can't model with it, and I don't even know if you can import a 3D model, seems the program works mostly off of image files and to my knowledge no mention of 3D models at all. (that's not to say you can't import a jpeg of your 3D model) The thing I like about it is, for what its strength is, which is making an image talk, the tools are advanced enough to actually be extremely easy to setup and use, and surprisingly accurate and versatile. Definitely a great program to do 2D cartoons. Monty Python would have made great use of this program.
The other program is I'm a bit more interested in is PoserPro 2010, especially since it's half price until the end of the month, but I haven't checked it out thoroughly enough yet to draw any conclusions about it. From what I have seen/read on their website, they have tutorials, but they're not video tuts, and although very detailed, they are not my personal preference for the best way of learning a new program, I prefer vids and learn faster with them. I did read through a couple of their rather detailed tuts however, and although there were some basically easy common sense dials and familiar tools, I did find it overall a bit more complex to understand the UI compared to CT6.
The most significant difference however is that Poser does 3D, ie...modeling, rigging, bones, etc.... I think just at a glance, comparing just the lip syncing tools for example, CT6 seems to get the setup job done quicker, and the animations/sfx/speech are all organized quickly in tracks in the stage/key editor. That said however, maybe it's because Poser's toolset for lip syncing and animation is more intricate, (more dials and controls to deal with), could be a good thing for better accuracy, but then could be much more time consuming to get results as well.
I'm anticipating most of my character dialogue is going to be done by creating wav files here in my music studio, as opposed to using a text to speech type method. So, I'll probably be importing the wav files into a program and syncing most of the dialogue/speech using the other available tools.
Any thoughts/suggestions from experienced PoserPro users, (or possibly an alternative program in the same price range) would be appreciated, and would help me to make a wise buying decision. Thanks!
Musikman
Now, granted my primary function with Firebird Studios is music and sound fx, so I'm just under one year's experienced in 3D since installing TS. I still find TS quite challenging, but gradually improving, and have been working with Vue Infinite PLE for the past few months as well. I don't know a lot about character modeling, morph targets, etc... except for what I've recently read, and I suppose based on your comments that it wouldn't hurt to have both Poser and Daz, I just figured it to be quicker to become familiar with and learn just one. 
at this, but I believe what you're referring to is the vowel and consonant morphs like the ones that are stored in TS's facial animator that work with the text to speech function, is that correct? If so, I believe that Poser maybe has those included as well, and if I'm not mistaken I think those can even be edited if need be. Good to know Michael and Victoria are free, I can add them to whatever characters come included with Poser.
Too late for me, I've already purchased PoserPro2010, and I'm having very similar problems with the program freezing up and crashing, seemingly at will and not even able to link the problem to any specific set of moves or circumstances. Somewhat glad in a way that I'm not alone and you have posted here. Although tech support has told me it's most likely a video card or video driver issue, I was a bit skeptical as all my other 3D programs have been running quite well, and I only have an old Pentium 4, 2.8Ghz, with 2.5Ghz RAM, ATI Radeon HD 3850 video card with 512 MB RAM. So if the program is having so many issues with a well capable system like yours, then I have to consider that it's quite possible my pc is not the problem. Maybe I ought to think about trading down to poser 8 if they will allow me to. Will have to give that some thought, thanks for the information, much appreciated! 
I appreciate the thought. 
If you don't mind, let me know whether I can uninstall only the Divx codec, it's worth a shot, and something I certainly wouldn't have thought of, thanks!