Humans use speech and gestures to convey information
Stanford University
An artificial intelligence model could allow virtual avatars to naturally gesture to match spoken words, possibly to AI-generated newsreaders or agents who move more realistically as they speak.
As humans speak, we gesture to help convey our meaning. But when video game characters or digital avatars attempt similar behavior, they often make generic moves without considering what they’re actually saying. To make the virtual figures gesture more realistically, the researchers first had to teach an AI model the connection between speech and body language, and emotions…
