Emotive Qualities in Robot Speech

Abstract

This paper explores the expression of emotion in synthesized speech for an anthropomorphic robot. We have adapted several key emotional correlates of human speech to the robot's speech synthesizer to allow the robot to speak in either an angry, calm, disgusted, fearful, happy, sad, or surprised manner. We have evaluated our approach through acoustic analysis of the speech patterns for each vocal affect and have studied how well human subjects perceive the intended affect.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA434701

Entities

People

  • Cynthia Breazeal

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Autonomic Nervous System
  • Cardiovascular Physiological Phenomena
  • Computer Graphics
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Equations
  • Frequency
  • Happiness
  • Heart Rate
  • Human Emotions
  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Human-Robot Interaction
  • Loudness
  • Neural Networks
  • Personality

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Speech Processing/Speech Recognition.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Autonomous Systems
  • Autonomy