ISCA Archive LW 2009
ISCA Archive LW 2009

Towards a virtual agent using similarity-based laughter production

Jérôme Urbain, Stéphane Dupont, Thierry Dutoit, Radoslaw Niewiadomski, Catherine Pelachaud

In this abstract we present a collaborative project on creating a laughing machine. The machine can automatically detect laughter. After clustering it, the machine finds the closest similar laughter that is then synthesized acoustically and visually by a virtual agent. Below we present the various components involved in our project.