Systems and methods for authoring and modifying presentation conversation files for multimodal interactive computing devices / artificial companions

A method of authoring and modifying presentation conversation files, comprising:

• accessing computer-readable instructions from one or more memory devices for execution by one or more processors of the computing device;
• executing the computer-readable instructions accessed from the one or more memory devices by the one or more processors of the computing device;
• and
• wherein executing the computer-readable instructions further comprising:
• receiving, at a renderer module of the computing device, voice files, visual effect files, facial expression files and/or mobility files;
• analyzing, by the language processor module of the computing device, the voice files, the visual effect files, the facial expression files and/or mobility files follow guidelines of a multimodal authoring system;
• generating, by the renderer module, one or more presentation conversation files based at least in part on the received voice files, visual effect files, facial expression files and/or mobility files;
• testing, at an automatic testing system, the one or more presentation conversation files to verify correct operation of a robot computing device that receives the one or more presentation conversation files as an input;
• identifying, by a multimodal review module, changes to be made to the voice input files, the visual effect files, the facial expression files and/or the mobility files;
• generating revised voice files, revised visual effect files, revised facial expression files and/or revised mobility files based at least in part on the identified changes;
• and
• verifying, by the language processor module, that the revised voice files, revised visual effect files, revised facial expression files and/or revised mobility files are aligned with the robot computing device's personality and operational characteristics.