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20222026
most citedRead the Room: Adapting a Robot's Voice to Ambient and Social Contexts

3 citations · 6 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.CL2026

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…

cs.RO2025

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…

cs.RO2025

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…

cs.LG2025

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…

cs.SD2025

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…

cs.SD2024★ 1 cited

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…