Facial animation is referred to all those systems per- forming 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 in- put 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 ”Talk- ing 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, syn- chronization; in this way, the server can handle multiple requests from clients.

GAMBINO, O., GAGLIO, S., PILATO, G., PIRRONE, R., AUGELLO, A., CARONIA, A. (2008). A Java 3D Talking Head for a Chatbot. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems (pp.709-714). LOS ALAMITOS, CA : IEEE Computer Society [10.1109/CISIS.2008.57].

A Java 3D Talking Head for a Chatbot

GAMBINO, Orazio;GAGLIO, Salvatore;PIRRONE, Roberto;
2008-01-01

Abstract

Facial animation is referred to all those systems per- forming 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 in- put 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 ”Talk- ing 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, syn- chronization; in this way, the server can handle multiple requests from clients.
2008
CISIS 2008
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2008
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Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems. CISIS 2008
GAMBINO, O., GAGLIO, S., PILATO, G., PIRRONE, R., AUGELLO, A., CARONIA, A. (2008). A Java 3D Talking Head for a Chatbot. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems (pp.709-714). LOS ALAMITOS, CA : IEEE Computer Society [10.1109/CISIS.2008.57].
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GAMBINO, O; GAGLIO, S; PILATO, G; PIRRONE, R; AUGELLO, A; CARONIA, A
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