Multimodal Speech Synthesis: Improving Information Flow in Dialogue Systems Using 3D Talking Heads

Authors:
David House;Björn Granström
Affiliations:
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Venue:
AIMSA '02 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications
Year:
2002

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Abstract

This paper describes activities at CTT, Centre for Speech Technology, using the potential of animated talking agents to improve information flow in dialogue systems. Our motivation for moving into audiovisual output is to investigate the advantages of multimodality in human-system communication. While the mainstream character animation area has focused on the naturalness and realism of the animated agents, our primary concern has been the possible increase of intelligibility and efficiency of interaction, resulting from the addition of a talking face.