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RichCast - A Voice-Driven Interactive Digital Narrative Authoring System

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Interactive Storytelling (ICIDS 2022)

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We present RichCast a platform for conversational audio Interactive Digital Narrative (IDN). RichCast includes an accessible ‘No-code’ authoring tool, a community driven library of works, and voice interactive medium for interactive storytelling.

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    RichCast by Panivox as available here https://www.richcast.com/ as of 20/7/22.

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  1. Panivox, Kenilworth, UK

    Christopher Ferraris

  2. Bournemouth University, Poole, UK

    Charlie Hargood

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  1. Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Mirjam Vosmeer

  2. University of Skövde, Skövde, Sweden

    Lissa Holloway-Attaway

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Ferraris, C., Hargood, C. (2022). RichCast - A Voice-Driven Interactive Digital Narrative Authoring System. In: Vosmeer, M., Holloway-Attaway, L. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13762. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22298-6_26

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