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Townsend Duong

Li Gong

Andrew Yinger

Methods and systems, including computer program products, for speech animation. The system includes a speech animation server and one or more speech animation clients. The speech animation server generates speech animation content that drives the expressions and behaviors of talking agents displayed by the speech animation clients. The data used by the server includes one or more references to behavioral contexts. A behavioral context corresponds to a particular application scenario and includes a set of expressions that are appropriate to the particular application scenario. A behavioral context can also be defined as a combination of two or more other behavioral contexts. The server automatically incorporates the expressions of a particular behavioral context into any data that references the particular behavioral context.

Speech animation with behavioral contexts for application scenarios

Methods and systems, including computer program products, for speech animation. The system includes a speech animation engine and a client application in communication with the speech animation engine. The client application sends a request for speech animation to the speech animation engine. The request identifies data to be used to generate the speech animation, where speech animation is speech synchronized with facial expressions. The client application receives a response from the speech animation engine. The response identifies the generated speech animation. The client application uses the generated speech animation to animate a talking agent displayed on a user interface of the client application. The speech animation engine receives the request for speech animation from the client application, retrieves the data identified in the request without user intervention, generates the speech animation using the retrieved data and sends the response identifying the generated speech animation to the client application.

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