Maintaining credible dialogs in a VideoBot system with special audio techniques

An approach to using actual audio and video clips of real humans to construct artificial, conversational agents and bots is presented. This approach differs from other schemes focusing on believable, emotional, intelligent agents and bots in that it begins with real human subjects but constructs artificial behaviors and interactions with human users as opposed to beginning with artificial characters and trying to construct real interactions. The approach presents several production challenges during the filming, postproduction, and scripting phases of bot creation that make it difficult for human users to sustain suspension of disbelief during interaction with the bot. Various approaches to solving these problems are presented and described.