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Hi robot, it's not what you say, it's how you say it
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Human Centered Technology, Media Technology and Interaction Design, MID.
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Speech, Music and Hearing, TMH.
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Speech, Music and Hearing, TMH.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1399-6604
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Speech, Music and Hearing, TMH.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0397-6442
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2023 (English)In: 2023 32ND IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOT AND HUMAN INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATION, RO-MAN, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2023, p. 307-314Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Many robots use their voice to communicate with people in spoken language but the voices commonly used for robots are often optimized for transactional interactions, rather than social ones. This can limit their ability to create engaging and natural interactions. To address this issue, we designed a spontaneous text-to-speech tool and used it to author natural and spontaneous robot speech. A crowdsourcing evaluation methodology is proposed to compare this type of speech to natural speech and state-of-the-art text-to-speech technology, both in disembodied and embodied form. We created speech samples in a naturalistic setting of people playing tabletop games and conducted a user study evaluating Naturalness, Intelligibility, Social Impression, Prosody, and Perceived Intelligence. The speech samples were chosen to represent three contexts that are common in tabletopgames and the contexts were introduced to the participants that evaluated the speech samples. The study results show that the proposed evaluation methodology allowed for a robust analysis that successfully compared the different conditions. Moreover, the spontaneous voice met our target design goal of being perceived as more natural than a leading commercial text-to-speech.

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2023. p. 307-314
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IEEE RO-MAN, ISSN 1944-9445
Keywords [en]
speech synthesis, human-robot interaction, embodiment, spontaneous speech, intelligibility, naturalness
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Other Engineering and Technologies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-341972DOI: 10.1109/RO-MAN57019.2023.10309427ISI: 001108678600044Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85186982397OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-341972DiVA, id: diva2:1825344
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32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), AUG 28-31, 2023, Busan, SOUTH KOREA
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Part of proceedings ISBN 979-8-3503-3670-2

Available from: 2024-01-09 Created: 2024-01-09 Last updated: 2025-02-18Bibliographically approved

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Miniotaitė, JūraWang, SiyangBeskow, JonasGustafson, JoakimSzékely, ÉvaAbelho Pereira, André Tiago

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