Customizing Digital Person Behavior

The following sections describe the mechanism for customizing the behavior of your Digital Person using various options from Digital DNA studio, and how to use them on different versions of Human OS and languages.

Some of the behavior options in Digital DNA studio are dependent on the real-time gesturing feature and also the languages we support. The below table briefly describes the features that work only on certain Human OS versions, languages, and when the real-time gesturing option is turned on.

Feature	Description	Important Notes
Real-Time Gesturing	Digital People add appropriate gesturing and emotionally expressive behavior to their speech autonomously, in real-time.	Available in a Digital Person running Human OS 2.0+ for English, or Human OS 2.3+ for Japanese, and Human OS 2.4+ for Korean
Behavior Styles	A predefined set of behavioural styles, each one consisting of character specific autonomous gestural and emotional behavior, that can be matched to the written persona you’ve created and your use case.	Available in a Digital Person running Human OS 2.3+ for English and Japanese, and Human OS 2.4+ for Korean 8 styles available for each language
Behavior Adjustments	Behavior Tags: Enable you to apply a limited set of facial expressions and gestures to selected words, phrases, or entire sentences.	Available to all languages and all Digital People Overrides emotional and gestural behavior from Real-time gesturing (if enabled)
	Gesture Markup: Your Digital Person’s behavior can be adjusted using hashtag gesture markup inserted directly into a corpus. This is a fantastic way to add further fine-tuning to your Digital Person should you require it at some points in your conversation.	Head and face markup available to all Digital People Hand and body markup available to Digital People running Human OS 2.5+ and speaking English, Japanese and Korean
	React to negative facial expressions: You can choose whether or not to allow your digital person to respond to users' negative facial expressions.	Available in a Digital Person running Human OS 2.3+. Available for all languages
	React to negative speech: You can choose whether or not to allow your digital person to respond to users' negative speech.	Available in a Digital Person running Human OS 2.3+ for Japanese and English, and Human OS 2.4+ for Korean Real-time gesturing must be on
Responding to user hand gestures	Digital People are able to respond to hand gestures from the user.	Available in an English, Japanese, Korean, French, Russian and Hindi speaking Digital People running Human OS 2.4+.
Other settings	My Digital Person should greet me at the start: This option makes your Digital Person greet users as it starts up.	Applies to all languages and all Digital People
Other settings	Enable idle session timeout: Ability to automatically end the conversation session with the user, after a specified period of inactivity from the user.	Applies to all languages and all Digital People