The Storyteller: Building a Synthetic Character That Tells Stories
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This paper introduces the Storyteller, a synthetic character that tells stories. Our goal is to obtain an expressive and believable embodied agent that can resemble a real human storyteller. The several aspects concerning the conception of the character, as well as some preliminary results, are presented in this document.
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تاریخ انتشار 2001