4 papers
Is Natural Always Appropriate? Investigating Naturalness and Appropriateness Across Different Domains for TTS Evaluation
Dominika Woszczyk, Andreas Triantafyllopoulos, Jura Miniota +2
Text-to-speech (TTS) evaluation is an open challenge. While the primary target was "naturalness," recent fidelity gains shifted focus toward "appropriateness" and whether speech is…
Users and Wizards in Conversations: How WoZ Interface Choices Define Human-Robot Interactions
Ekaterina Torubarova, Jura Miniota, Andre Pereira
In this paper, we investigated how the choice of a Wizard-of-Oz (WoZ) interface affects communication with a robot from both the user's and the wizard's perspective. In a conversat…
Human-Robot Interaction Conversational User Enjoyment Scale (HRI CUES)
Bahar Irfan, Jura Miniota, Sofia Thunberg +4
Understanding user enjoyment is crucial in human-robot interaction (HRI), as it can impact interaction quality and influence user acceptance and long-term engagement with robots, p…
Will AI shape the way we speak? The emerging sociolinguistic influence of synthetic voices
Ãva Székely, JÅ«ra Miniota, MÃÅ¡a +1
The growing prevalence of conversational voice interfaces, powered by developments in both speech and language technologies, raises important questions about their influence on hum…