The Impression of Phones and Prosody Choice in the Gibberish Speech of the Virtual Embodied Conversational Agent Kotaro
Antonio Galiza Cerdeira Gonzalez,
Wing-Sum Lo,
Ikuo Mizuuchi
Abstract:The number of smart devices is expected to exceed 100 billion by 2050, and many will feature conversational user interfaces. Thus, methods for generating appropriate prosody for the responses of embodied conversational agents will be very important. This paper presents the results of the “Talk to Kotaro” experiment, which was conducted to better understand how people from different cultural backgrounds react when listening to prosody and phone choices for the IPA symbol-based gibberish speech of the virtual em… Show more
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