A Multilingual Embodied Conversational Agent

Authors:
Dominic W. Massaro;Slim Ouni;Michael M. Cohen;Rashid Clark
Affiliations:
University of California, Santa Cruz;University of California, Santa Cruz;University of California, Santa Cruz;University of California, Santa Cruz
Venue:
HICSS '05 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Volume 09
Year:
2005

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Abstract

In our paper last year, we described our language-training program, which utilizes Baldi as a tutor, who guides students through a variety of exercises designed to teach vocabulary and grammar, to improve speech articulation, and to develop linguistic and phonological awareness. In this paper, we describe the technology of Baldi in more detail, and how it has been enhanced along a number of dimensions. First, Baldi is now multilingual and is capable of acquiring new languages fairly easily. Second, Baldi has grown a body to allow the communication of communicative gesture.