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Abstract
This lecture provides an overview of techniques to build conversational digital characters.
Objective
This lecture provides an overview of techniques to build conversational digital characters. The main components of conversational digital characters are introduced: Chatbots, speech recognition, speech synthesis, animation synthesis. Real-life application of such digital characters is demonstrated on different use cases (e.g., Digital Einstein).
Content
This lecture opens with basics on digital characters. Afterwards, the main components to build a conversational digital character are introduced. This includes the basics of natural language processing used to build a chatbot, speech recognition, speech synthesis, and animating a digital character based on motion capturing and deep learning. Further, autonomous agents based on knowledge graphs are covered. The lecture ends with real-life applications of digital characters.
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Lecture slides will be made available at the course website.