Title :
Design of a virtual human presenter
Author :
Noma, Tsukasa ; Zhao, Liwei ; Badler, Norman I.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Artificial Intelligence, Kyushu Inst. of Technol., Iizuka, Japan
Abstract :
We have created a virtual human presenter who accepts speech texts with embedded commands as inputs. The presenter acts in real-time 3D animation synchronized with speech. The system was developed on the Jack animated-agent system. Jack provides a 3D graphical environment for controlling articulated figures, including detailed human models
Keywords :
computer animation; graphical user interfaces; real-time systems; speech synthesis; speech-based user interfaces; synchronisation; virtual reality; 3D graphical environment; Jack animated-agent system; articulated figure control; detailed human models; embedded commands; speech text input; speech-synchronized real-time 3D animation; virtual human presenter; Biological system modeling; Computer interfaces; Facial animation; Humans; Lifting equipment; Societies; Speech; TV; Weather forecasting; Web sites;
Journal_Title :
Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE