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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 humanoid robots must engage with humans through their bodies, adapting in real time to a partner's movement, intent, and abilities. This requires models that u…
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…