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Voice Puppetry: Towards Conversational HRI WoZ Experiments with Synthesised Voices

Published: 01 April 2020 Publication History

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In order to research conversational factors in robot design the use of Wizard of Oz (WoZ) experiments, where an experimenter plays the part of the robot, are common. However, for conversational systems using a synthetic voice, it is extremely difficult for the experimenter to choose open domain content and enter it quickly enough to retain conversational flow. In this demonstration we show how voice puppetry can be used to control a neural TTS system in almost real time. The demo hopes to explore the limitations and possibilities of such a system for controlling a robot's synthetic voice in conversational interaction.

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[1]
Wendy J Holmes. 1989. Copy synthesis of female speech using the JSRU parallel formant synthesiser. In First European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology . 2513--2516.
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Oytun Turk and Marc Schroder. 2010. Evaluation of expressive speech synthesis with voice conversion and copy resynthesis techniques. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Vol. 18, 5 (2010), 965--973.

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    HRI '20: Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
    March 2020
    702 pages
    ISBN:9781450370578
    DOI:10.1145/3371382
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    1. personification
    2. social robots
    3. speech synthesis

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