Events 
| CRC Colloquium |
| Montag, 19.10.2009 16:00 - 18:00 | |
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Dr. Marc Schröder, Senior Researcher at DFKI GmbH Open-source research platforms for multimodal, emotion-oriented interactive systems: SEMAINE API and MARY TTS Emotion-oriented interactive software systems are progressing in the research world, but current technology is fragmented due to custom island solutions. In this talk I will argue in favour of standard interfaces and reusable components as means for helping the research community make joint progress. I will present two open-source research platforms developed in this spirit. First, the SEMAINE API is a component integration platform for emotion-oriented, multimodal interactive systems, using standard representation formats such as EMMA, BML and SSML at component interfaces. I will describe the SEMAINE system, an audio-visual dialogue system with a focus on non-verbal analysis and synthesis. I will show how new emotion-aware systems can be built in a simple manner by combining existing and new components through the SEMAINE API. Second, MARY TTS is a state-of-the-art, modular, multilingual speech synthesis platform with support for adding new languages and voices. Its unit selection and HMM-based synthesis voices can be used in audio-visual synthesis contexts because timing information is available for lip synchronisation and gesture alignment. Dr. Marc Schröder, Senior Researcher at DFKI GmbH Coordinator EU FP7 Project SEMAINE http://www.semaine-project.eu Portal Editor http://emotion-research.net Team Leader DFKI Speech Group http://mary.dfki.de Homepage: http://www.dfki.de/~schroed Email: schroed@dfki.de Phone: +49-681-302-5303 Postal address: DFKI GmbH, Campus D3_2, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, D-66123 Saarbrücken, Germany -- Official DFKI coordinates: Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz GmbH Trippstadter Strasse 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany |
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