Talking Agents




Animation of talking agents
[PDF] from kth.seJ Beskow - Audio-Visual Speech Processing: Computational & ..., 1997 - isca-speech.org
It is envisioned that autonomous software agents that can communicate using speech and 
gesture will soon be on everybody's computer screen. This paper describes an architecture 
that can be used to design and animate characters capable of lip-synchronised synthetic ...
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Olga-A dialogue system with an animated talking agent
[PDF] from psu.eduJ Beskow, K Elenius... - Fifth European Conference ..., 1997 - isca-speech.org
The object of the Olga project is to develop an interactive 3D animated talking agent. A 
futuristic application scenario is interactive digital TV, where the Olga agent would guide 
naive users through the various services available on the network. The current application ...
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Multimodality and speech technology: Verbal and non-verbal communication in talking agents
[PDF] from psu.eduB Granstrom... - Eighth European Conference on Speech ..., 2003 - isca-speech.org
This paper presents methods for the acquisition and modelling of verbal and non-verbal 
communicative signals for the use in animated talking agents. This work diverges from the 
traditional focus on the acoustics of speech in speech technology and will be of ...
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Talking agents design on the ICARO framework
J de Alba... - ... Data Engineering and Automated Learning-IDEAL ..., 2009 - Springer
ICARO is an open framework for building distributed applications as organizations of agents 
and resources. The guiding principles of ICARO have been used to design the architecture 
of Talking Agents, software entities with the ability to recognize human speech and ...
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[PDF] Talking Agents: A distributed architecture for interactive installation-art works
[PDF] from assembla.comJMF de Alba... - Integrated Computer-Aided ..., 2010 - subversion.assembla.com
Abstract. Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence imply challenges and opportunities to 
explore new kinds of artistic experiences in the confrontation of the spectator to an 
installation-art work. In this context, a diversity of elements, such as sensors and speech ...
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Recognition and interpretation on talking agents
JMF de Alba... - ... of the 23rd international conference on ..., 2010 - dl.acm.org
Abstract Speech is not a common way to interact with an artwork, but recent advances in 
Artificial Intelligence imply challenges and opportunities to explore new kinds of experiences 
in the confrontation of the spectator to the artwork. In order to have flexibility in ...
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Making of Anthropomorphic Talking Agent with 3D Face Modeled by Arbitrary Figure
Y HENMI, S KIKUCHI, S AKAMATSU... - Gazo Denshi Gakkai ..., 2006 - sciencelinks.jp
Abstract; The Galatea Toolkit, provided free by the Galatea Project, is a software 
environment for developing an anthropomorphic talking agent which displays facial 
expressions as well as facial speeches. The toolkit includes a function of constructing a ...
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A study on education tools with an animated talking agent for the hearing imparired.
T KITAMURA, T ARAI... - IEIC Technical Report ( ..., 2002 - sciencelinks.jp
Abstract; An education tool with an animated talking agent named Baldi, that has been 
developed at CSLU (Center for Spoken Language Understanding at the Oregon Graduate 
Instiute) is used at Tucker-Maxon (Portland, Oregon), a school for deaf children using oral ...
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Talking agents in ambient-assisted living
J Fernández de Alba... - Knowledge-Based and Intelligent ..., 2010 - Springer
A natural way to interact with persons in Ambient Asssited Living (AAL) scenarios is through 
speech. Speech recognition techniques usually require of training for achieving good 
results. However, this training is not possible when different people can enter and leave. ...
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Emotional talking agent: System and evaluation
[PDF] from tsinghua.edu.cnS Zhang, J Jia, Y Xu... - Natural Computation (ICNC), ..., 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Abstract In this paper, we introduce a system that synthesizes the emotional audio-visual 
speech for a 3-D talking agent by adopting the PAD (Pleasure-Arousal-Dominance) 
emotional model. A GMM-based method is introduced to predict variation of acoustic ...
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[CITATION] Talking Agent
PY Demaure - 2001 - Aalborg University. Department of ...
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A multimodal approach of generating 3D human-like talking agent
M Yang, J Tao, K Mu, Y Li... - Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, 2011 - Springer
Abstract This paper introduces a multimodal framework of generating a 3D human-like 
talking agent which can communicate with user through speech, lip movement, head motion, 
facial expression and body animation. In this framework, lip movements are obtained by ...
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Recognition and Interpretation on Talking Agents
J Fernández de Alba... - Trends in Applied Intelligent Systems, 2010 - Springer
Speech is not a common way to interact with an artwork, but recent advances in Artificial 
Intelligence imply challenges and opportunities to explore new kinds of experiences in the 
confrontation of the spectator to the artwork. In order to have flexibility in experimentation ...
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[HTML] The OLGA project: An animated talking agent in a dialogue system
[HTML] from kth.seJ Beskow, K Elenius... - 2007 - speech.kth.se
Abstract The object of the Olga project is to develop an interactive 3D animated talking 
agent. The final target could be the future, digital TV-set, where the Olga agent would guide 
naive users through various new services on the networks. The current application is ...
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[PDF] Common Belief Retrieval for Talking Agent Based on Primitive WWW Search
[PDF] from hokudai.ac.jpRRKAK Tochinai - sig.media.eng.hokudai.ac.jp
1 Hokkaido University, Engineering Dept, Signal Processing and Language Information 
Lab.[n our project (GENTA-GENeral belief rcTrieving Agent), we try to build a conversational 
agent, which uses Web resources not only to enrich its linguistic abilities but also to use ...
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[DOC] The Talking Agents: architecture for building interactive installation-art works software
[DOC] from assembla.comJMF de Alba... - subversion.assembla.com
Abstract. Many interactive art works make use of very simple algorithms, but recent 
advances in Artificial Intelligence imply challenges and opportunities to explore new kinds of 
experiences in the confrontation of the spectator to the art work. In order to have flexibility ...
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Common Belief Retrieval for Talking Agent Based on Primitive WWW Search.
R RZEPKA, K ARAKI... - Proceedings of the Annual ..., 2002 - sciencelinks.jp
Abstract; In our project (GENTA-GENeral belief reTrieving Agent), we try to build a 
conversational agent, which uses Web resources not only to enrich its linguistic abilities but 
also to use those resources as a material for creating agent's" own" opinions and beliefs ...
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Talking Agents: A distributed architecture for interactive artistic installations
JM Fernández... - Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, 2010 - IOS Press
Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence imply challenges and opportunities to explore new 
kinds of artistic experiences in interaction with the spectator of an artistic installation. In this 
context, a wide range of elements, such as sensors and speech recognition and synthesis, ...
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[PDF] Talking to agents in virtual worlds
[PDF] from psu.eduS McGlashan... - UK VR-SIG Conf, 1996 - Citeseer
... A multicast protocol could not be used directly with talking agents due to the problem of
overhearing: ie if a talking agent is active, but users are speaking to one another, then the talking
agent will hear this communication and may mis-recognise it as commands. ... 
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Talking agents: arquitectura de agentes conversacionales
[PDF] from ucm.esJM Fernández de Alba López de Pablo - 2009 - eprints.ucm.es
Resumen Los Talking Agents son entidades software con la capacidad de reconocer el 
habla humana y sintetizar una respuesta hablada. Se han desarrollado este tipo de agentes 
para construir instalaciones artísticas, con el propósito de trabajar en nuevos tipos de ...
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Analyzing and Modelling Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication for Talking Animated Interface Agents
D House... - NATO SECURITY THROUGH ..., 2007 - books.google.com
... collection methods, modeling and evaluation experiments, and implementation in animated talking
agents for dialogue systems. From this point of departure, we can see that many challenges remain
before we will be able to create a believable, animated talking agent based on ... 
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[PDF] SUSTAINED LEARNING IN 4TH AND 5TH GRADERS BUT NOT IN 7TH GRADERS: TWO EXPERIMENTS WITH A TALKING PEDAGOGICAL AGENT
[PDF] from cdli.caBL Mann, H Schulz, S Adams... - users.cdli.ca
... Page 2. Sustained Learning with a Talking Agent ... Sustained Learning with a Talking Agent
cognitive load from an unbalanced input from both channels; the other (b) normalized mental
effort associated with normal cognitive load from a balanced input from both channels. ... 
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EgoChat Agent: A Talking Virtualized Member for Supporting Community Knowledge Creation
H Kubota... - The Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on " ..., 2000 - aaai.org
... Our method for supporting knowl- edge creation is using human-style talking agents called
"virtualized-egos". ... Virtualized-ego : a talking agent on EgoChat Because interaction among
humans and virtualized-egos should be as casual as possible for humans, virtualized-egos ... 
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[PDF] Talking Nets: exploring a multi-agent, connectionist model of distributed communication and cognition
[PDF] from 134.184.131.111F Heylighen... - 134.184.131.111
Page 1. 1 Talking Nets: exploring a multi-agent, connectionist model of distributed communication
and cognition Research Proposal for a "Geconcerteerde Onderzoeksactie", submitted by Francis
Heylighen and Frank Van Overwalle, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Summary ... 
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Modelling and Evaluating Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication in Talking Animated Interface Agents
[PDF] from kth.seB Granström... - Evaluation of Text and Speech Systems, 2007 - Springer
... Abstract The use of animated talking agents is a novel feature of many multimodal
experimental spoken dialogue systems. ... The use of animated talking agents is currently a
novel feature of many multimodal experimental spoken dialogue systems. ... 
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Effective interaction with talking animated agents an dialogue systems
[PDF] from psu.eduB Granström... - Advances in Natural Multimodal Dialogue ..., 2005 - Springer
Page 1. Chapter 10 EFFECTIVE INTERACTION WITH TALKING Björn Granström and
David House Centre for Speech Technology (CTT) Department of Speech, Music and
Hearing, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden {bjorn, davidh}@speech.kth.se ... 
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