SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING CONVERSATIONAL VISUAL PROSODY FOR TALKING HEADS

Patent №

US 7,076,430

Granted

2006-07-11

Filed 2002

Owner

AT&T CORP.

Lab

AI components

3

ml · nlp · speech

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10173341

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.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Speech1.00
Machine learning1.00
Knowledge representation0.00
AI hardware0.00
Planning0.00
Vision0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

AT&T CORP.

assignment · 130380483

Assignors

COSATTO, ERIC, GRAF, HANS PETER, ISAACSON, THOMAS M., STROM, VOLKER FRANZ

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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