Nemohifi

Abstract

This demo concerns a recently developed prototype of an emotionally-sensitive autonomous HiFi Spoken Conversational Agent, called NEMOHIFI. The baseline agent was developed by the Speech Technology Group (GTH) and has recently been integrated with an emotional engine called NEMO (Need-inspired Emotional Model) to enable it to adapt to users' emotion and respond to the users using appropriate expressive speech. NEMOHIFI controls and manages the HiFi audio system, and for end users, its functions equate a remote control, except that instead of clicking, the user interacts with the agent using voice. A pairwise comparison between the baseline (non-adaptive) and NEMO-HIFI is also presented.