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Jan Romportl : Speech Synthesis and Uncanny Valley . Text, Speech, and Dialogue, 17th International Conference, TSD 2014, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 8655, p. 595-602, Springer, 2014.

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The paper discusses a hypothesis relating high quality text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis in spoken dialogue systems with the concept of “uncanny valley”. It introduces a “Wizard-of-Oz” experiment with 30 volunteers engaged in conversations with two synthetic voices of different naturalness. The results of the experiment are summarized and interpreted, leading to the conclusion that the TTS uncanny valley effect in dialogue systems can probably be superseded and inverted by a positive attitude of the systems’ users toward new technologies.

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Title: Speech Synthesis and Uncanny Valley
Author: Jan Romportl
Language: English
Date of publication: 1 Sep 2014
Year: 2014
Type of publication: Papers in proceedings of reviewed conferences
Book title: Text, Speech, and Dialogue, 17th International Conference, TSD 2014
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Číslo vydání: 8655
Page: 595 - 602
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-10816-2_72
ISBN: 978-3-319-10815-5
ISSN: 0302-9743
Publisher: Springer
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text-to-speech synthesis, spoken dialogue system, uncanny valley, experiment

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@INPROCEEDINGS{JanRomportl_2014_SpeechSynthesisand,
 author = {Jan Romportl},
 title = {Speech Synthesis and Uncanny Valley},
 year = {2014},
 publisher = {Springer},
 volume = {8655},
 pages = {595-602},
 booktitle = {Text, Speech, and Dialogue, 17th International Conference, TSD 2014},
 series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
 ISBN = {978-3-319-10815-5},
 ISSN = {0302-9743},
 doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-10816-2_72},
 url = {http://www.kky.zcu.cz/en/publications/JanRomportl_2014_SpeechSynthesisand},
}