The use of speech for robots to communicate with their human users has been facilitated by
improvements in speech synthesis technology. Now that the intelligibility of synthetic speech …

Background Sentiment expression and detection are crucial for effective and empathetic
human-robot interaction. Previous work in this field often focuses on non-verbal emotion …

One of the major factors that affect the acceptance of robots in Human-Robot Interaction
applications is the type of voice with which they interact with humans. The robot's voice can …

This paper explores the expression of emotion in synthesized speech for an
anthropomorphic robot. We have adapted several key emotional correlates of human …

Artificial speech developed using speech synthesizers has been used as the voice for robots
in Human Robot Interaction (HRI). As humans anthropomorphize robots, an empathetically …

A key skill for social robots is the ability to communicate their inner state to humans. In this
paper, we explore abstracted robot-specific ways of interaction as an alternative to human …

This paper presents two experiments focusing on perception of mechanical sounds
produced by expressive robot movement and blended sonifications thereof. In the first …

With robotics rapidly advancing, more effective human–robot interaction is increasingly
needed to realize the full potential of robots for society. While spoken language must be part …

Prosody in a single speaking style—often read speech—has been studied extensively in
acoustic speech. During the past few years we have expanded our interest in two …

Human speech provides a natural and intuitive interface for both communicating with
humanoid robots as well as for teaching them. In general, the acoustic pattern of speech …