DocumentCode
2115966
Title
Emotive qualities in robot speech
Author
Breazeal, Cynthia
Author_Institution
Media Lab., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Volume
3
fYear
2001
fDate
2001
Firstpage
1388
Abstract
This paper explores the expression of emotion in synthesized speech for an anthropomorphic robot. We adapted several key emotional correlates of human speech to the robot speech synthesizer to allow the robot to speak in either an angry, calm, disgusted, fearful, happy, sad, or surprised manner. We evaluated our approach thorough an acoustic analysis of the speech patterns for each vocal affect and studied how well human subjects perceive the intended affect
Keywords
human factors; robots; speech synthesis; acoustic analysis; anthropomorphic robot; emotion expression; speech synthesis; Anthropomorphism; Biological system modeling; Displays; Facial animation; Human robot interaction; Positron emission tomography; Senior citizens; Speech analysis; Speech synthesis; Synthesizers;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2001. Proceedings. 2001 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
Conference_Location
Maui, HI
Print_ISBN
0-7803-6612-3
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IROS.2001.977175
Filename
977175
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