This work presents an audio-visual interactive chatbot (AVIN-Chat) system that allows users to have face-to-face conversations with 3D avatars in real-time. Compared to the previous chatbot services, which provide text-only or speech-only communications, the proposed AVIN-Chat can offer audio-visual communications providing users with a superior experience quality. In addition, the proposed AVIN-Chat emotionally speaks and expresses according to the user's emotional state. Thus, it enables users to establish a strong bond with the chatbot system, increasing the user's immersion. Through user subjective tests, it is demonstrated that the proposed system provides users with a higher sense of immersion than previous chatbot systems. The demonstration video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z74uIV9k7_k.
@article{arxiv.2409.00012,
title = {AVIN-Chat: An Audio-Visual Interactive Chatbot System with Emotional State Tuning},
author = {Chanhyuk Park and Jungbin Cho and Junwan Kim and Seongmin Lee and Jungsu Kim and Sanghoon Lee},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.00012},
year = {2024}
}