Can a robot laugh with you?: Shared laughter generation for empathetic spoken dialogue

Spoken dialogue systems must be able to express empathy to achieve natural interaction with human users. However, laughter generation requires a high level of dialogue understanding. Thus, implementing laughter in existing systems, such as in conversational robots, has been challenging. As a first s...

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Main Authors: Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala, Tatsuya Kawahara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Robotics and AI
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2022.933261/full