Children’s perception of synthesized voice: Robot’s gender, age and accent

Anara Sandygulova; Gregory M P O’Hare

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-25554-5_59

Children’s perception of synthesized voice: Robot’s gender, age and accent

Anara Sandygulova, Gregory M P O’Hare

Department of Robotics and Mechatronics

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Abstract

This paper presents a study of children’s responses to the perceived gender and age of a humanoid robot Nao that communicated with four genuine synthesized child voices. This research investigates children’s preferences for an English accent. Results indicate that manipulations of robot’s age and gender are successful for all voice conditions, however some voices are preferred over the others by children in Ireland.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	594-602
Number of pages	9
Journal	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	9388 LNCS
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25554-5_59
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	7th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2015 - Paris, France Duration: Oct 26 2015 → Oct 30 2015

Keywords

Child-robot interaction
Human-robot interaction
Perception
Robot
Voice

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Theoretical Computer Science
General Computer Science

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Children’s perception of synthesized voice: Robot’s gender, age and accent. / Sandygulova, Anara; O’Hare, Gregory M P.
In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 9388 LNCS, 2015, p. 594-602.

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