Automatic content production for an autonomous speaker agent

Proceedings of the Symposium on Conversational Informatics for Supporting Social Intelligence and Interaction: Situational and Environmental Information Enforcing Involvement in Conversation

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 103-112

  Smid, Karlo ^a,b   Pandzic, Igor S ^a   Radman, Viktorija ^a  

^a ERICSSON NIKOLA TESLA   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC CONTENT; AUTOMATIC CREATIONS; EMBODIED ANIMATED AGENTS; EYE BLINK; FACIAL GESTURES; FULL FACES; LEXICAL ANALYSIS; LIP MOVEMENTS; STATISTICAL MODELS; SYSTEM USE; VIDEO CLIPS; VISUAL TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEMS;

ANIMALS; ANIMATION; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; INFORMATION SCIENCE; SPEECH;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 33845795067     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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