A toolkit for exploring the role of voice in human-robot interaction

Author

Henkel, Zachary ; Srinivasan, Vasant ; Murphy, Robin R. ; Groom, Victoria ; Nass, Clifford

Author_Institution

Center for Robot-Assisted Search & Rescue, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

8-11 March 2011

Firstpage

255

Lastpage

256

Abstract

This paper describes an open source speech translator toolkit created as part of the “Survivor Buddy” project which allows written or spoken word from multiple independent controllers to be translated into either a single synthetic voice, synthetic voices for each controller, or unchanged natural voice of each controller. The human controllers can work over the internet or be physically co-located with the Survivor Buddy. The toolkit is expected to be of use for exploring voice in general human-robot interaction.

Keywords

Internet; human-robot interaction; speech synthesis; Internet; Survivor Buddy project; general human-robot interaction; human controllers; multiple independent controllers; open source speech translator toolkit; spoken word; synthetic voices; voice role; written word; Educational institutions; Robot kinematics; Servers; Speech; Speech recognition; USA Councils; Experimentation; Human Factors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2011 6th ACM/IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Lausanne

ISSN

2167-2121

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4393-0

Electronic_ISBN

2167-2121

Type

conf

Filename

6281324