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The design of an embodied conversational agent that promotes physical activity to young Chinese adults living in the United States is described, along with specific cultural adaptations performed to tailor the agent to Chinese culture. Results of a pilot study comparing the Chinese exercise coach agent to another adapted to American culture demonstrated that participants found the Chinese agent more...
In this paper, we proposed and realized a corpus pruning method using decision tree. In the process of clustering, instead of conventional method, we measure the distance of pitch contours by feature vector composed by slope mean. The subjective and objective evaluation results showed that synthetic outputs based on corpus pruned through our method are close to outputs based on no-pruning corpus and...
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