Social robots, conversational agents, voice assistants, and other embodied AI are
increasingly a feature of everyday life. What connects these various types of intelligent …

When a smart device talks, what should its voice sound like? Voice-enabled devices are
becoming a ubiquitous presence in our everyday lives. Simultaneously, speech synthesis …

Recent years have seen significant market penetration for voice-based personal assistants
such as Apple's Siri. However, despite this success, user take-up is frustratingly low. This …

The growing popularity of speech interfaces goes hand in hand with the creation of synthetic
voices that sound ever more human. Previous research has been inconclusive about …

We aim to investigate the nature of doubt regarding voice-based agents by referring to
Piaget's ontological object-subject classification" thing" and" person," its associated …

The field of Human-Agent Interaction (HAI) has made significant strides in recent years, yet
the gap between the envisioned capabilities of conversational agents and their current state …

Create conversational UIs using cutting-edge frameworks Key FeaturesBuild AI chatbots
and voicebots using practical and accessible toolkitsDesign and create voicebots that really …

Artificial intelligence (AI) is gaining traction in service-oriented businesses in the form of
chatbots. A chatbot is a popular type of social AI that uses natural language processing to …

Background: The increasing involvement of social robots in human lives raises the question
how humans perceive social robots. Little is known about human perception of synthesized …

Conversational AI intends for machine-human interactions to appear and feel more natural
and inclined to communicate in a near-human context. Chatbots, also known as …