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Children’s Perception of Synthesized Voice: Robot’s Gender, Age and Accent

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Social Robotics (ICSR 2015)

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This paper presents a study of children’s responses to the perceived gender and age of a humanoid robot Nao that communicated with four genuine synthesized child voices. This research investigates children’s preferences for an English accent. Results indicate that manipulations of robot’s age and gender are successful for all voice conditions, however some voices are preferred over the others by children in Ireland.

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  1. School of Science and Technology, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan

    Anara Sandygulova

  2. School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland

    Gregory M. P. O’Hare

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Correspondence to Anara Sandygulova .

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  1. Robotics and Computer Vision Lab, ENSTA-ParisTech, Palaiseau, France

    Adriana Tapus

  2. Inst für Informatik, Human-Ctr Multimedi, Universität Augsburg, Augsburg, Bayern, Germany

    Elisabeth André

  3. LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France

    Jean-Claude Martin

  4. Robotics and Computer Vision Lab, ENSTA-ParisTech, Palaiseau, France

    François Ferland

  5. LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France

    Mehdi Ammi

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Sandygulova, A., O’Hare, G.M.P. (2015). Children’s Perception of Synthesized Voice: Robot’s Gender, Age and Accent. In: Tapus, A., André, E., Martin, JC., Ferland, F., Ammi, M. (eds) Social Robotics. ICSR 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9388. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25554-5_59

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