Title :
Auditory Perspective Taking
Author :
Martinson, E. ; Brock, D.
Author_Institution :
U.S. Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC, USA
Abstract :
Effective communication with a mobile robot using speech is a difficult problem even when you can control the auditory scene. Robot self-noise or ego noise, echoes and reverberation, and human interference are all common sources of decreased intelligibility. Moreover, in real-world settings, these problems are routinely aggravated by a variety of sources of background noise. Military scenarios can be punctuated by high decibel noise from materiel and weaponry that would easily overwhelm a robot´s normal speaking volume. Moreover, in nonmilitary settings, fans, computers, alarms, and transportation noise can cause enough interference to make a traditional speech interface unusable. This work presents and evaluates a prototype robotic interface that uses perspective taking to estimate the effectiveness of its own speech presentation and takes steps to improve intelligibility for human listeners.
Keywords :
human-robot interaction; military systems; mobile robots; prototypes; speech processing; weapons; auditory perspective taking; auditory scene; human interference; human listener intelligibility; materiel noise; military scenarios; mobile robot; nonmilitary settings; robot echoes; robot ego noise; robot normal speaking volume; robot reverberation; robot self-noise; speech interface; speech presentation; transportation noise; weaponry noise; Adaptation models; Humans; Noise; Robot kinematics; Robot sensing systems; Speech; Acoustic propagation; auditory displays; human–robot interaction; robot sensing systems; Algorithms; Auditory Perception; Biomimetics; Communication; Humans; Man-Machine Systems; Pattern Recognition, Automated; Robotics; Sound Spectrography; Speech Production Measurement;
Journal_Title :
Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TSMCB.2012.2219524