Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) are computer generated life-like characters that interact with human users in face-to-face conversations. To achieve natural multi-modal conve...
Hung-Hsuan Huang, Aleksandra Cerekovic, Kateryna T...
The present study proposes an inter-speaker audiovisual synchronization method to decrease the speaker dependency of our direct speech to animation conversion system. Our aim is to...
This paper describes GroupBanter, a tool for supporting serendipitous group conversations using instant messaging. We investigate the potential of ephemeral group conversations by ...
Kori Inkpen, Steve Whittaker, Mary Czerwinski, Rol...
We propose a speech-based conversation environment called Voice Cafe for facilitating dynamic knowledge interaction. Dynamic knowledge interaction is a key concept for creative in...
Abstract. This paper describes and compares the use of methods based on Ngrams (specifically trigrams and pentagrams), together with five features, to recognise the syntactic and s...