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Bot or not: exploring the fine line between cyber and human identity

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Speech technology is rapidly entering the everyday through the large scale commercial impact of systems such as Apple Siri and Amazon Echo. Meanwhile technology that allows voice cloning, voice modification, speech recognition, speech analytics and expressive speech synthesis has changed dramatically over recent years. The demonstration, described in this paper, is an educational tool in the form of an online quiz called `Bot or Not'. Using the quiz we have gathered impressions of what people realise is possible with current speech synthesis technology. The opinions of various groups regarding the synthesis of famous voices, sounding like a robot, and the difference between synthesis and voice modification were collected.

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    ICMI '17: Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction
    November 2017
    676 pages
    ISBN:9781450355438
    DOI:10.1145/3136755
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    1. identity
    2. speech synthesis
    3. voice modification

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    • (2022)The role of valence, dominance, and pitch in perceptions of artificial intelligence (AI) conversational agents’ voicesScientific Reports10.1038/s41598-022-27124-812:1Online publication date: 28-Dec-2022
    • (2019)Who owns your voice?Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces10.1145/3342775.3342793(1-3)Online publication date: 22-Aug-2019

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