Coordinating Vocal and Visual Parameters for 3D Virtual Agents
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This paper presents an implemented system for automatically producing prosodically appropriate speech and corresponding facial expressions for animated, threedimensional agents that respond to simple database queries in a 3D virtual environment. Unlike previous text-to-facial animation approaches, the system described here produces synthesized speech and facial animations entirely from scratch, starting with semantic representations of the message to be conveyed, which are based in turn on a discourse model and a small database of facts about the modeled world.
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