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Generating Verbal and Nonverbal Utterances for Virtual Characters

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We introduce an approach to multimodal generation of verbal and nonverbal contributions for virtual characters in a multiparty dialogue scenario. This approach addresses issues of turn-taking, is able to synchronize the different modalities in real-time, and supports fixed utterances as well as utterances that are assembled by a full-fledged tree-based text generation algorithm. The system is implemented in a first version as part of the second VirtualHuman demonstrator.

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  1. DFKI GmbH, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, 66123, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Benjamin Kempe, Norbert Pfleger & Markus Löckelt

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  1. Université de Perpignan, LTS, 52, avenue de Villeneuve, 66860, Perpignan Cedex, France

    Gérard Subsol

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Kempe, B., Pfleger, N., Löckelt, M. (2005). Generating Verbal and Nonverbal Utterances for Virtual Characters. In: Subsol, G. (eds) Virtual Storytelling. Using Virtual Reality Technologies for Storytelling. ICVS 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3805. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11590361_8

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