Photorealistic speech agents and facially expressive robots

Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation

Volumn 34, Issue , 1997, Pages 191-196

  Frenger, Paul ^a  

^a A WORKING HYPOTHESIS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Facial gesture recognition; Human computer interface; Machine vision; Speech synthesis; Voice recognition

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

FACIAL GESTURES; SPEECH AGENTS;

MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS;

ACCURACY; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONFERENCE PAPER; FACIAL EXPRESSION; GESTURE; HEARING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; RECOGNITION; ROBOTICS; SPEECH; VIDEOTAPE; VOICE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMANS; ROBOTICS; SPEECH; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0031402679     PISSN: 00678856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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