Audio-visual dialogue system and method

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9837091
APP PUB NO 20160203827A1
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14913876

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The present invention provides an audio-visual dialogue system that allows a user to create an ‘avatar’ which may be customised to look and sound a particular way. The avatar may be created to resemble, for example, a person, animal or mythical creature, and generated to have a variable voice which may be female or male. The system then employs a real-time voice conversion in order to transform any audio input, for example, spoken word, into a target voice that is selected and customised by the user. The system is arranged to facially animate the avatar using a real-time lip-synching algorithm such that the generated avatar and the target voice are synchronised.

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UCL BUSINESS LTDUNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON LONDON WC1E 6BT

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Huckvale, Mark Chelmsford, GB 1 29
Leff, Julian London, GB 1 29
Williams, Geoffrey Chelmsford, GB 3 86

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