Emotive qualities in robot speech
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facial expression. A disembodied voice would be a detriThis paper explores the expression of emotion in synment to a life-like quality of interaction that we would like thesized speech for an anthropomorphic robot. We have Kismet to have with people. Synchronized movements of adapted several key emotional correlates of human speech to the robot's speech synthesizer to allow the robot to speak the face with voice both complement as well as supplement in either an angry, calm, disgusted, fearful, happy, sad, or the information transmitted through the verbal channel. surprised manner. We have evaluated our approach thorIn earlier work we have presented Kismet's emotion sysough acoustic analysis of the speech patters for each vocal affect and have studied how well human subjects perceive tem and its expressive facial animation system (that inthe intended affect. cludes emotive facial expressions and lip synchronization) KeywordsHuman-robot interaction, emotive expression, [12]. This paper presents our work in giving Kismet's voice synthesized speech. emotive qualities.
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