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Virtual conversation with a real talking head

Salvatore GaglioA. CaroniaAgnese AugelloGiovanni PilatoRoberto PirroneOrazio Gambino

subject

MultimediaComputer sciencemedia_common.quotation_subjectSpeech synthesisAnimationcomputer.software_genreChatbotServerTalking HeadConversationDialog systemcomputerComputer animationComputer facial animationmedia_common

description

A talking head is system performing an animated face model synchronized with a speech synthesis module. It is used as a presentation layer of a conversational Agent which provide an answer. It provides an answer when a query is written as an input by the user. The textual answer is converted into facial movements of a 3D face model whose lips and tongue movements are synchronized with the sound of the synthetic voice. The Client-Server paradigm has been used for the WEB infrastructure delegating the animation and synchronization to the client, so that the server can satisfy multiple requests from clients; while the Chatbot, the Digital Signal Processing and the Natural language Processing are provided by the server.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2008-05-012008 Conference on Human System Interactions
https://doi.org/10.1109/hsi.2008.4581446