Curtin University’s Talking Heads (TH) combine an MPEG-4 compliant Facial Animation Engine (FAE), an Text To Emotional Speech Synthesiser (TTES), a multi-modal Dialogue Manager (...
He Xiao, Donald Reid, Andrew Marriott, E. K. Gulla...
Talking virtual characters are graphical simulations of real or imaginary persons capable of human-like behaviour, most importantly talking and gesturing. Coupled with artificial ...
The importance of public engagement and awareness concerning environmental issues has been widely recognised in the development of a sustainable community. Recent efforts by author...
Abstract. We present a dialogue system that enables the access in natural language to a web information retrieval system. We use a Web Semantic Language to model the knowledge conv...
It is possible to define conversation policies, such as communication or dialogue protocols, that are based strictly on what messages and, respectively, what performatives may foll...