Abstract
Supported by artificial intelligence, recently, two different topics
have taken an essential role in many applications, which are chatbots
and virtual humans, owing to their capability in establishing
communication between them and the users for accomplishing different
tasks depending on their goal. Virtual humans are getting a lot of
attention in different industries due to their realistic human form,
behavior, and ability to convey emotional feedback, especially when
experienced in a virtual reality environment. While Chatbots are
considered the most promising example of building interaction between
humans and machines because of their high efficiency in communicating
with people resulting in being utilized in various applications.
Combining a chatbot with a virtual human results in an Embodied Digital
Conversational Agent; hence it will achieve positive feedback because
face-to-face communication has always played a main role in how people
interact and develop throughout history. Therefore, we present an
Open-Domain Conversational Digital Human System that allows you to have
a friendly virtual avatar and establishes realistic interaction with
users. The system consists of a 3D virtual character and a set of
artificial intelligence models, each specified for completing a task
like emotion recognition, dialogue generation, facial expression
extraction, animations, text-to-speech, and speech-to-text conversion.