There has been a consistent problem with sending texts messages to your
friends and loved one this day in age. It is not always easy to understand how
a text should be understood, or what type of emotion it is trying to convey.
Now the help of "emoji's" in text messages, or smiley faces, it is
easy to convey emotion. Sometimes it is just not enough though. Well that is
where a research team at the University of Cambridge that is hard at work trying to make
sure that this because a worry of the past.
The University is actually working to make spoken text evoke emotions
through a visual 3D avatar of yourself speaking it with the desired emotion
attached to the speech. Sounds crazy right? In a video demonstrating the use of the program
though, it seemed to work out very well, considering the stage of development
it is still in. The University issued a statement further explaining how the
use of the emotion sliders could be used in conjunction with one another to add
an almost infinite realm of emotions
to the speech. The actress who performed all of the some 7,000 sentences in the
dialogue capture, is named Zoe, and her avatar is hoping to be the face of the
new AI assistants that are coming too nearly every mobile gadget nowadays.
With Siri still holding the hierarchy position of
everyone's favorite
digital helper, it will be hard to spearhead through the competition. The
research this team is conducting has the ability to change the way we text and
evoke emotion electronically forever. It is really shaping up to be something
that could work with Apple and Siri as well, should the circumstances permit.
Plus having a digitized version of your face as a personal assistant or as a
means to just have the person you are texting see your facial features while
the assistant is saying them with the implied emotion could be very cool!... Or
very creepy. Either way, keep an eye out for this software in the future as it
will definitely be game changing!
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