A Multimodal Presentation Markup Language MPML with Controlling Functions of Character Agent
Takayuki Tsutsui, Mitsuru Ishizuka · Transactions of Information Processing Society of Japan · 2000
As a new style of effective information presentations and a new multimodal informationcontent production on the WWW, multimodal presentations using interactive lifelike agents with verbal conversation capability appear to be very attractive and important. For this purpose, we have developed MPML (Multimodal Presentation Markup Language) which allows many users to write attractive multimodal presentations easily. MPML is a markup language conformed to XML (Extensible Markup Language) and supports functions for controlling verbal presentations and scripting agent behaviors. In this paper, we present MPML and its related tools for producing multimodal presentations.