This paper presents a novel framework for automatic speech-driven gesture generation,
applicable to human-agent interaction including both virtual agents and robots. Specifically, we …

During speech, people spontaneously gesticulate, which plays a key role in conveying
information. Similarly, realistic co-speech gestures are crucial to enable natural and smooth …

This paper reports on the GENEA Challenge 2023, in which participating teams built speech-driven
gesture-generation systems using the same speech and motion dataset, followed by …

Gestures that accompany speech are an essential part of natural and efficient embodied
human communication. The automatic generation of such co‐speech gestures is a long‐…

Automatic synthesis of realistic gestures promises to transform the fields of animation, avatars
and communicative agents. In off‐line applications, novel tools can alter the role of an …

This paper reports on the second GENEA Challenge to benchmark data-driven automatic co-speech
gesture generation. Participating teams used the same speech and motion dataset …

Co-speech gestures, gestures that accompany speech, play an important role in human
communication. Automatic co-speech gesture generation is thus a key enabling technology for …

This article reports on the second GENEA Challenge to benchmark data-driven automatic co-speech
gesture generation. Participating teams used the same speech and motion dataset …

To enable more natural face-to-face interactions, conversational agents need to adapt their
behavior to their interlocutors. One key aspect of this is generation of appropriate non-verbal …

We propose a new framework for gesture generation, aiming to allow data-driven approaches
to produce more semantically rich gestures. Our approach first predicts whether to gesture…