
as out-of-sync in either preparation, and/or stroke movement phase.
The evaluation showed that most of the generated behavior of
the proposed PLATTOS system can be assessed as viable, and close
to human-like.
7. Conclusion
This chapter presented a novel TTS-driven non-verbal behavior
system for coverbal gesture synthesis. The system’s architecture and
grammar, used to synchronize the non-verbal expressions with verbal
information in symbolical and temporal domain, were presented in
detail. Further, we have presented how meaningful parts of verbal
content are identified and selected based on word-type-order, and
the semiotic patterns within the ...