4 papers
Face versus Body Tracking for Human-Robot Interaction: An Egocentric Dataset
Jessica Wenninger, Gabriel Skantze
Meaningful human-robot interaction (HRI) requires a robot to continuously assess user engagement through persistent user tracking. However, state-of-the-art Multi-Object Tracking m…
VoXtream: Full-Stream Text-to-Speech with Extremely Low Latency
Nikita Torgashov, Gustav Eje Henter, Gabriel Skantze
We present VoXtream, a fully autoregressive, zero-shot streaming text-to-speech (TTS) system for real-time use that begins speaking from the first word. VoXtream directly maps inco…
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…
Applying General Turn-taking Models to Conversational Human-Robot Interaction
Gabriel Skantze, Bahar Irfan
Turn-taking is a fundamental aspect of conversation, but current Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) systems often rely on simplistic, silence-based models, leading to unnatural pauses a…