Maintaining credible dialogs in a VideoBot system with special audio techniques

Author

DeGroot, Doug

Author_Institution

Leiden Inst. of Adv. Comput. Sci., Leiden Univ., Netherlands

fYear

2001

fDate

7-9 Nov 2001

Firstpage

351

Lastpage

358

Abstract

An approach to using actual audio and video clips of real humans to construct artificial, conversational agents and bots is presented. This approach differs from other schemes focusing on believable, emotional, intelligent agents and bots in that it begins with real human subjects but constructs artificial behaviors and interactions with human users as opposed to beginning with artificial characters and trying to construct real interactions. The approach presents several production challenges during the filming, postproduction, and scripting phases of bot creation that make it difficult for human users to sustain suspension of disbelief during interaction with the bot. Various approaches to solving these problems are presented and described

Keywords

multi-agent systems; software agents; speech processing; VideoBot System; artificial behaviors; artificial characters; audio and video clips; bot creation; conversational agents and bots; credible dialogs maintaining; filming; human subjects; postproduction; scripting phases; Animation; Artificial intelligence; Computer science; Distributed computing; Humans; Indexing; Intelligent agent; Internet; Production; Robots;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Tools with Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dallas, TX

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1417-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTAI.2001.974483

Filename

974483