This article describes an age-annotated database of German telephone speech. All in all 47 hours of prompted and free text was recorded, uttered by 954 paid participants in a styl...
Felix Burkhardt, Martin Eckert, Wiebke Johannsen, ...
Autonomous Speaker Agent (ASA) is a graphically embodied animated agent capable of reading plain English text and rendering it in a form of speech, accompanied by appropriate, natu...
Marko Brkic, Karlo Smid, Tomislav Pejsa, Igor S. P...
This paper proposes a method for automatically inserting commas into Japanese texts. In Japanese sentences, commas play an important role in explicitly separating the constituents...
In this paper we introduce a system that automatically adds different types of non-verbal behavior to a given dialogue script between two virtual embodied agents. It allows us to ...
Werner Breitfuss, Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Ishiz...
Previous examinations of search in textual archives have assumed that users first retrieve a ranked set of documents relevant to their query, and then visually scan through these ...
Steve Whittaker, Julia Hirschberg, John Choi, Dona...