This paper presents the current advances in "The Muses of Poetry", an on-going project that combines interaction, emotions and poetry. The goal of the project is to create an interactive installation where a virtual character not only recites poetry, but also manifests the affective content of the poem through facial expressions and voice rhythm. The novelty of our work is the combination of different elements like human computer interaction, semantic analysis, affective computing and character animation, which intend to create a unique poetic experience. These elements are presented in the first part of the paper. In the second part, we do a more in-depth analysis of all the aspects that would be necessary to have virtual characters that read poems out loud, while conveying their intrinsic emotional meaning.
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