A Bilingual Interactive Human Avatar Dialogue System
Dana Abu Ali, Muaz Ahmad, Hayat Al Hassan, Paula Dozsa, Ming Hu, Jose Varias, Nizar Y. Habash · 2018
This demonstration paper presents a bilingual (Arabic-English) interactive human avatar dialogue system.The system is named TOIA (time-offset interaction application), as it simulates face-to-face conversations between humans using digital human avatars recorded in the past.TOIA is a conversational agent, similar to a chat bot, except that it is based on an actual human being and can be used to preserve and tell stories.The system is designed to allow anybody, simply using a laptop, to create an avatar of themselves, thus facilitating cross-cultural and cross-generational sharing of narratives to wider audiences.The system currently supports monolingual and cross-lingual dialogues in Arabic and English, but can be extended to other languages.