Paper Info
Title
A Java3D Talking Head for a Chatbot
Abstract
Facial animation is referred to all those systems performing the speech synchronization with an animated face model. This kind of systems are called "Talking Head" or "Talking Face". In this paper a Talking Head oriented to the creation of a Chatbot is presented. It requires an input query and an answer is generated in form of text. The answer is transduced into a facial animation using a 3D face model whose lips movements are synchronized with the sound produced by a speech synthesis module. Our "Talking Head" explores the naturalness of the facial animation and provides a real-time interactive interface to the user. The WEB infrastructure has been realized using the Client-Server model delegating the Chatbot, the Natural Language Processing and the Digital Signal Processing services to the server, while the client is involved in animation, synchronization; in this way, the server can handle multiple requests from clients.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/CISIS.2008.57
Barcelona
Keywords
Field
DocType
digital signal processing service,facial animation,client-server model,speech synthesis module,input query,speech synchronization,face model,animated face model,natural language processing,web infrastructure,artificial neural networks,speech synthesis,client server,digital signal processing,face,skeleton,client server model,computer animation,system performance,real time,speech,hidden markov models,java,servers,synchronization,animation
Speech synthesis,Computer science,Server,Naturalness,Chatbot,Computer facial animation,Animation,Computer animation,Multimedia,Client–server model
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-0-7695-3109-0
0
0.34
References 
Authors
3
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Salvatore Gaglio166088.41
Giovanni Pilato225858.71
Roberto Pirrone314036.09
Orazio Gambino45611.37
Agnese Augello514933.34
Alessandro Caronia600.34