DocumentCode :
3625386
Title :
Towards an Embodied Conversational Agent Talking in Croatian
Author :
Aleksandra Cerekovic;Hung-Hsuan Huang;Goranka Zoric;Kateryna Tarasenko;Vjekoslav Levacic;Igor S. Pandzic;Yukiko Nakano;Toyoaki Nishida
Author_Institution :
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Zagreb, Croatia, aleksandra.cerekovic@fer.hr
fYear :
2007
fDate :
6/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage :
41
Lastpage :
48
Abstract :
The advancement of traffic makes world more and more internationalized and increases frequency of communication between people who come from different cultures. Differences in their conversation go beyond the languages they speak to the non-verbal behaviors they express while talking. To improve the abilities of the embodied conversational agents (ECAs) while interacting with human users we are working on the ECA based application, a tour guide of city Dubrovnik that servers visitors in Japanese, Croatian and general western cultures speaking in English. This paper presents the overall architecture and explains possible extension with another culture. It describes issues we met while making agent talk in Croatian and proposed solutions.
Keywords :
"Humans","Cities and towns","User interfaces","Speech recognition","Face detection","Face recognition","Signal processing","Hardware","Sensor systems","Informatics"
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Telecommunications, 2007. ConTel 2007. 9th International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
953-184-110-1
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/CONTEL.2007.381848
Filename :
4267474
Link To Document :
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