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Covertly improving intelligibility with data-driven adaptations of speech timing
Paige Tuttösí, Angelica Lim, H. Henny Yeung +2
Human talkers often address listeners with language-comprehension challenges, such as hard-of-hearing or non-native adults, by globally slowing down their speech. However, it remai…
I Know You're Listening: Adaptive Voice for HRI
Paige Tuttösí
While the use of social robots for language teaching has been explored, there remains limited work on a task-specific synthesized voices for language teaching robots. Given that la…
EmojiVoice: Towards long-term controllable expressivity in robot speech
Paige Tuttösí, Shivam Mehta, Zachary Syvenky +3
Humans vary their expressivity when speaking for extended periods to maintain engagement with their listener. Although social robots tend to be deployed with ``expressive'' joyful…
CoMPAS3D: A Dataset and Benchmark for Interactive Motion
Bermet Burkanova, Yasaman Etesam, Payam Jome Yazdian +5
Socially interactive humanoids aim to interact with humans through their bodies, adapting in real time to a partner's movement, intent, and abilities. This requires models that und…
You Sound a Little Tense: L2 Tailored Clear TTS Using Durational Vowel Properties
Paige Tuttösí, H. Henny Yeung, Yue Wang +2
We present the first text-to-speech (TTS) system tailored to second language (L2) speakers. We use duration differences between American English tense (longer) and lax (shorter) vo…
Mmm whatcha say? Uncovering distal and proximal context effects in first and second-language word perception using psychophysical reverse correlation
Paige Tuttösí, H. Henny Yeung, Yue Wang +4
Acoustic context effects, where surrounding changes in pitch, rate or timbre influence the perception of a sound, are well documented in speech perception, but how they interact wi…
Good Things Come in Trees: Emotion and Context Aware Behaviour Trees for Ethical Robotic Decision-Making
Paige Tuttösí, Zhitian Zhang, Emma Hughson +1
Emotions guide our decision making process and yet have been little explored in practical ethical decision making scenarios. In this challenge, we explore emotions and how they can…
Time out of Mind: Generating Rate of Speech conditioned on emotion and speaker
Navjot Kaur, Paige Tuttosi
Voice synthesis has seen significant improvements in the past decade resulting in highly intelligible voices. Further investigations have resulted in models that can produce variab…
Read the Room: Adapting a Robot's Voice to Ambient and Social Contexts
Paige Tuttosi, Emma Hughson, Akihiro Matsufuji +1
How should a robot speak in a formal, quiet and dark, or a bright, lively and noisy environment? By designing robots to speak in a more social and ambient-appropriate manner we can…