Whilst techniques for narrative generation and agent behaviour have made significant progress in recent years, natural language processing remains a bottleneck hampering the scala...
Fred Charles, David Pizzi, Marc Cavazza, Thurid Vo...
Whether it is for human-robot interaction or for human-computer interaction, there is a growing need for an emotional speech synthesis system that can provide the required informat...
This paper presents a novel application of speech emotion recognition: estimation of the level of conversational engagement between users of a voice communication system. We begin...
Recently, multimodal and affective technologies have been adopted to support expressive and engaging interaction, bringing up a plethora of new research questions. Among the chall...
Lassi A. Liikkanen, Giulio Jacucci, Eero Huvio, To...