[humaine news] Sensitive Artificial Listener software available: SEMAINE-2.0 released

[Marc Schroeder]

The SEMAINE project consortium is proud to present SEMAINE-2.0, the
first full implementation of an autonomous Sensitive Artificial Listener
agent. This is an extended version of the system which won the ACII 2009
Best Demo award. The full system is now available for download.

Sensitive Artificial Listeners (SAL) are virtual dialogue partners who,
despite their very limited verbal understanding, intend to engage the
user in a conversation by paying attention to the user's emotions and
non-verbal expressions. The SAL characters have their own emotionally
defined personality, and attempt to drag the user towards their dominant
emotion, through a combination of verbal and non-verbal expression.

The SEMAINE system 2.0 is the first public demonstrator of the fully
operational autonomous SAL system based on audiovisual analysis and
synthesis. It can be downloaded by following the instructions on
http://semaine.opendfki.de/wiki/SEMAINE-2.0

A sample video of the kind of interaction that the system performs is
available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=munqOlj3mNw


Feedback is welcome via the SEMAINE-users mailing list at
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semaine-users


Best regards,
Marc Schröder, SEMAINE Project Coordinator

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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
Editor W3C Draft EmotionML http://www.w3.org/TR/emotionml/

Homepage: http://www.dfki.de/~schroed
Email: schroed at dfki.de
Phone: +49-681-302-5303
Postal address: DFKI GmbH, Campus D3_2, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, D-66123
Saarbrücken, Germany
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Dr. Walter Olthoff
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