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Method for Custom Facial Animation and Lip-Sync in an Unsupported Environment, Second LifeTM

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNAI,volume 5773))

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The virtual world of Second LifeTM does not offer support for complex facial animations, such as those needed for an intelligent virtual agent to lip sync to audio clips. However, it is possible to access a limited range of default facial animations through the native scripting language, LSL. Our solution to produce lip sync in this environment is to rapidly trigger and stop these default animations in custom sequences to produce the illusion that the intelligent virtual agent is speaking the phrases being heard.

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  1. USC Institute for Creative Technologies, 13274 Fiji Way, Los Angeles, California, USA, 90292

    Eric Chance & Jacki Morie

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  1. Human Media Interaction (HMI), University of Twente, EWI (Zilverling), P.O.Box 217, 7500, Enschede, AE, The Netherlands

    Zsófia Ruttkay

  2. Deutsches Forschungszentrum für künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI), Campus D3.2, 66123, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Michael Kipp

  3. Human Media Interaction Group,Dept. of Computer Science, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500, Enschede, AE, The Netherlands

    Anton Nijholt

  4. Center for Analysis and Design of Intelligent Agents, CADIA, School of Computer Science, Reykjavik University, Kringlan 1, 103, Reykjavik, Iceland

    Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson

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Chance, E., Morie, J. (2009). Method for Custom Facial Animation and Lip-Sync in an Unsupported Environment, Second LifeTM. In: Ruttkay, Z., Kipp, M., Nijholt, A., Vilhjálmsson, H.H. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5773. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04380-2_89

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