Paper Info
Title
Iterative Design of an Emotive Voice for the Tabletop Robot Haru
Abstract
Designing a voice for a social robot is particularly challenging because the voice needs to convincingly convey a target personality while maintaining rich, emotive capabilities in order to foster the development of bonds with humans. In this paper, we describe the ongoing design and implementation process of a voice for a social robot. To aid in our design and analysis, we identify three desirable characteristics for its voice: 1. convincingness, 2. emotiveness, and 3. consistency. In this paper, we present a preliminary study that investigates convincingness by comparing samples taken from human voice talents and eliciting human judgements about their appropriateness. This study compares human judgements, elicited through surveys, on a range of characteristics related to convincingness, emotions conveyed, and impressions of the overall consistency of the voice. Finally, we discuss the implications of the survey findings for designing a voice for a social robot.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1007/978-3-030-90525-5_31
SOCIAL ROBOTICS, ICSR 2021
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Social robot interaction, TTS voice design, Behavior design
Conference
13086
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
1
0.36
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eric Nichols110.70
Sarah Rose Siskind210.36
Waki Kamino321.74
Selma Sabanovic430244.66
Randy Gomez57628.11