Life-Like Characters
Tools, Affective Functions, and Applications

Helmut Prendinger and Mitsuru Ishizuka (Eds.)

Online material for the chapter

Galatea: Open-source Software for Developing Anthropomorphic Spoken Dialog Agents
by Shin-ichi Kawamoto, Hiroshi Shimodaira, Tsuneo Nitta, Takuya Nishimoto, Satoshi Nakamura, Katsunobu Itou, Shigeo Morishima, Tatsuo Yotsukura, Atsuhiko Kai, Akinobu Lee, Yoichi Yamashita, Takao Kobayashi, Keiichi Tokuda, Keikichi Hirose, Nobuaki Minematsu, Atsushi Yamada, Yasuharu Den, Takehito Utsuro, Shigeki Sagayama

A project to provide an open-source, license-free software toolkit for developing an anthropomorphic (life-like) spoken-language dialog agent system and its constituents such as speech recognition, text-to-speech, facial animation, and dialog control for free.

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Authors

• Planning and Supervision
  • Shigeki Sagayama, University of Tokyo
  • Satoshi Nakamura, Spoken Language Translation Labs.
• System Integration
  • Tsuneo Nitta, Toyohashi University of Technology
  • Hiroshi Shimodaira, JAIST (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
  • Takuya Nishimoto, University of Tokyo
  • Shin-ichi Kawamoto, JAIST (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
• Speech Recognition
  • Katsunobu Itou, Nagoya University
  • Atsuhiko Kai, Shizuoka University
  • Akinobu Lee, NAIST (Nara Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
• Speech Synthesis (including morphological analysis of text)
  • Yoichi Yamashita, Ritsumeikan University
  • Takao Kobayashi, Tokyo Intitute of Technology
  • Keiichi Tokuda, Nagoya Institute of Tehnology
  • Keikichi Hirose, University of Tokyo
  • Nobuaki Minematsu, University of Tokyo
  • Yasuharu Den, Chiba Univerity
  • Takehito Utsuro, Kyoto University
  • Atsushi Yamada, ASTEM
• Face Image Synthesis
  • Shigeo Morishima, Seikei University
  • Tatsuo Yotsukura, ATR Spoken Language Translation Labs.