This paper describes an open source voice creation toolkit that supports the creation of unit selection and HMM-based voices, for the MARY (Modular Architecture for Research on sp...
The schema or mental structures that people apply towards other people has been shown to influence the way people cooperate with others. Schemas evoke behavioral scripts. In this ...
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...
In this paper we present our work toward the creation of a multimodal expressive Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA). Our agent, called Greta, exhibits nonverbal behaviors synchro...
We motivate an approach to evaluating the utility of synthetic agents that is based on human physiology rather than questionnaires. The primary tool is an eye tracker that provide...
Helmut Prendinger, Chunling Ma, Jin Yingzi, Kushid...