Title :
Emotive qualities in robot speech
Author :
Breazeal, Cynthia
Author_Institution :
Media Lab., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
This paper explores the expression of emotion in synthesized speech for an anthropomorphic robot. We adapted several key emotional correlates of human speech to the robot speech synthesizer to allow the robot to speak in either an angry, calm, disgusted, fearful, happy, sad, or surprised manner. We evaluated our approach thorough an acoustic analysis of the speech patterns for each vocal affect and studied how well human subjects perceive the intended affect
Keywords :
human factors; robots; speech synthesis; acoustic analysis; anthropomorphic robot; emotion expression; speech synthesis; Anthropomorphism; Biological system modeling; Displays; Facial animation; Human robot interaction; Positron emission tomography; Senior citizens; Speech analysis; Speech synthesis; Synthesizers;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2001. Proceedings. 2001 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Maui, HI
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6612-3
DOI :
10.1109/IROS.2001.977175
