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
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25554-5_59
Publication status	Published - 2015

Keywords

Child-robot interaction
Human-robot interaction
Perception
Robot
Voice

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science
Computer Science(all)

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