System and method of providing conversational visual prosody for talking heads
AssigneeAT&T Corp.
InventorsEric Cosatto, Hans Peter Graf, Thomas M. Isaacson, Volker Franz Storm
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Abstract
A system and method of controlling the movement of a virtual agent while the agent is listening to a human user during a conversation is disclosed. The method comprises receiving speech data from the user, performing a prosodic analysis of the speech data and controlling the virtual agent movement according to the prosodic analysis.
Claims5
A method of providing movements by a virtual agent during a conversation with a user, the method utilizing a database associated sets of culturally based movements of the virtual agent, the method comprising:
- determining a culture associated with the user;
- receiving speech from the user;
- selecting from the database a set of listening movements for the virtual agent reactive to the received speech and appropriate to the determined culture of the user;
- and
- controlling movements of the virtual agent when the virtual agent listens to the user according to the selected set of listening movements and a prosodic analysis of the received speech.
A computing device for providing movements by a virtual agent during a conversation with a user, the method utilizing a associated with sets of movements of the virtual agent, the computing device comprising:
- a module configured to determine a culture associated with the user;
- a module configured to receive user speech;
- a module configured to select from the database a set of listening movements for the virtual agent reactive to the received speech and appropriate to the determined culture of the user;
- and
- a module configured to control movements of the virtual agent when the virtual agent listens to the user according to the selected set of listening movements and a prosodic analysis the received speech.
A computer-readable medium storing instructions for controlling a computing device to provide user-specific animated entity movements by a virtual agent during a conversation with a user, the method utilizing a database associated with sets of movements of the virtual agent, the instructions comprising:
- determining a culture associated with the user;
- receiving speech from the user;
- selecting from the database a set of listening movements for the virtual agent reactive to the received speech and appropriate to the determined culture of the user;
- and
- controlling movements of the virtual agent when the virtual agent listens to the user according to the selected set of listening movements and a prosodic analysis of the received speech.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.