The Role of Speech Technology in User Perception and Context Acquisition in HRI

Wuth, Jorge; Corrêa, Pedro Luiz Pizzigatti; Peters, Tomás; Saavedra, Matías; Yoma, Néstor Becerra

doi:10.1007/s12369-020-00682-5

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“…Voice is the friendliest and most natural way to communicate with people and machines [ 66 , 67 ]. As the primary communication tool to convey information, voice can influence people’s attitudes toward advertising [ 68 ], purchase intention [ 69 ], and purchase behavior [ 70 ].…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Effects of Anthropomorphism, Message Framing, and Voice Type on Unhealthy Sleep Behavior in Young Users: The Mediating Role of Risk Perception

Liu

Zhu

Zhang

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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Insufficient sleep is a severe social public health problem that can adversely affect the physical and mental health of young people. This study examined risk perceptions for unhealthy sleep behaviors and intentions for healthy sleep behaviors under different combinations of anthropomorphism, message framing, and voice type in cartoons. We used a three-factor between-subject experiment of two (anthropomorphism: anthropomorphic vs. non-anthropomorphic) × two (message framing: positive frame vs. negative frame) × two (voice type: cartoon child voice vs. adult female voice) design. We examined the effects of different audiovisual combinations of cartoon attitude, risk perception, and behavioral intention and the mediating role of risk perception. The research results show that (1) the integration of anthropomorphic design elements can positively impact users’ attitudes toward cartoons; (2) when the interface information is presented in a negative frame, anthropomorphism can more positively influence users’ attitudes toward cartoons than non-anthropomorphism; and (3) anthropomorphism, message framing, and voice type in cartoons significantly interact with risk perception. In addition, risk perception mediates the influence of anthropomorphism, message framing, and voice type on behavioral intention.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Effects of Anthropomorphism, Message Framing, and Voice Type on Unhealthy Sleep Behavior in Young Users: The Mediating Role of Risk Perception

Liu

Zhu

Zhang

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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“…is technology can aid in the advancement of language instruction, and it has steadily grown in popularity as a study hotspot. With the development of this technology, the naturalness and fluency have reached a high level [19].…”

Section: Research On the Application Of Speech Synthesis Technology I...mentioning

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Application of Intelligent Speech Synthesis Technology Assisted by Mobile Intelligent Terminal in Foreign Language Teaching

Zhehua

2022

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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In today’s increasingly frequent international exchanges, language ability has been paid more and more attention. However, the current foreign language teaching in some areas lacks a standard external input environment, and the gap between learners’ own ability and the new requirements has not been effectively solved. At present, intelligent speech synthesis technology is mature. It is found that this technology can play a unique advantage in language teaching. Based on this, this study studies the feasibility of the application of intelligent speech synthesis technology in foreign language teaching from the perspective of technology. On this basis, the application mode of intelligent speech synthesis technology in foreign language teaching is constructed to verify its application effect in foreign language teaching. The main research work of this paper is as follows: firstly, it analyzes the feasibility of using clever speech synthesis technologies to teach foreign languages, and it lists in detail the application conditions of intelligent speech synthesis technology in different teaching activities and course types. Then, it constructs the application mode of intelligent speech synthesis technology in foreign language teaching. Finally, the experimental research on the application mode of intelligent speech synthesis technology in listening teaching is carried out. The experimental results show that intelligent speech synthesis technology has achieved good results in foreign language teaching and laid a foundation for foreign language teaching research.

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“…Therefore, a control system may benefit from supplementary methods to pre-process the inputs and smooth the movements. In terms of speech for controlling the drone, Wuth et al [31] demonstrated that users find speech-based communication transparent and efficient. This efficient communication relies on knowledge of the context for the specific task addressed by the drone.…”

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Control through Domain-Based Automatic Speech Recognition

2020

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Currently, unmanned aerial vehicles, such as drones, are becoming a part of our lives and extend to many areas of society, including the industrialized world. A common alternative for controlling the movements and actions of the drone is through unwired tactile interfaces, for which different remote control devices are used. However, control through such devices is not a natural, human-like communication interface, which sometimes is difficult to master for some users. In this research, we experimented with a domain-based speech recognition architecture to effectively control an unmanned aerial vehicle such as a drone. The drone control was performed in a more natural, human-like way to communicate the instructions. Moreover, we implemented an algorithm for command interpretation using both Spanish and English languages, as well as to control the movements of the drone in a simulated domestic environment. We conducted experiments involving participants giving voice commands to the drone in both languages in order to compare the effectiveness of each, considering the mother tongue of the participants in the experiment. Additionally, different levels of distortion were applied to the voice commands to test the proposed approach when it encountered noisy input signals. The results obtained showed that the unmanned aerial vehicle was capable of interpreting user voice instructions. Speech-to-action recognition improved for both languages with phoneme matching in comparison to only using the cloud-based algorithm without domain-based instructions. Using raw audio inputs, the cloud-based approach achieves 74.81% and 97.04% accuracy for English and Spanish instructions, respectively. However, with our phoneme matching approach the results are improved, yielding 93.33% accuracy for English and 100.00% accuracy for Spanish.

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The Role of Speech Technology in User Perception and Context Acquisition in HRI

Cited by 15 publications

References 64 publications

The Effects of Anthropomorphism, Message Framing, and Voice Type on Unhealthy Sleep Behavior in Young Users: The Mediating Role of Risk Perception

The Effects of Anthropomorphism, Message Framing, and Voice Type on Unhealthy Sleep Behavior in Young Users: The Mediating Role of Risk Perception

Application of Intelligent Speech Synthesis Technology Assisted by Mobile Intelligent Terminal in Foreign Language Teaching

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Control through Domain-Based Automatic Speech Recognition

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