Take a Look, it's in a Book, a Reading Robot
We demonstrate EmojiVoice, a free, customizable text-to-speech (TTS) toolkit for expressive speech on social robots. We demonstrate our voices through storytelling. This task is aimed to be deployed in classrooms, or libraries where the robot can read a story out loud to children. Moreover, we introduce adaptive clarity to to noisy environments and those with reduced comprehension ability. This storytelling robot voice allows us to demonstrate how, using our light weight and customizable TTS, we are able to have a voice that is expressive, engaging, clear and socially appropriate for the task, improving interactions with and perceptions of social robots.
Authors
- Jean‐Julien Aucouturier (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4477-4812)
- Angelica Lim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9288-0380)
- Paige Tuttösí (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2082-8548)
- H. Henny Yeung (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4601-6924)
- Gustav Eje Henter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1643-1054)
- Yue Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0981-935X)
- Shivam Mehta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1886-681X)
- Bermet Burkanova
- Zachary Syvenky
- Mohammed Hfsafsti
Institutions
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Simon Fraser University (CA)
- Franche-Comté Électronique Mécanique Thermique et Optique - Sciences et Technologies (FR)
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology (SE)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-03-04
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1109/hri61500.2025.10973801
- Primary Topic
- Robotics and Automated Systems
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00