A social robot as an aloud reader: Putting together recognition and synthesis of voice and gestures for HRI experimentation

Advances in voice recognition have made possible applications in robotics controlled by voice only. However, user input through gestures and robot output gestures both create a more vivid interaction experience. In this article, we present an aloud reading application offering all these interaction methods for the HRI-research robot Maggie. It gives us a testbed for user studies investigating the effect of these additional interaction methods.