Industry case studies of adapting TTS for smooth interactions
Industry case studies of adapting TTS for smooth interactions
This paper reviews recent text-to-speech (TTS) research and addresses the scarcity of production-level adaptive TTS systems for users with specialized listening needs. The authors describe implementing changes to TTS systems based on prior research and report qualitative results from two case studies in real-world human-robot interaction (HRI) settings: an older adult care home and a noisy airport environment. Results indicate that relatively simple modifications to the robot's speech pitch, duration, and intensity offer promising directions for improving HRI, providing a framework for larger, formal studies.
The authors report qualitative results from two case studies in an older adult care home and an airport, suggesting that simple modifications to pitch, duration, and intensity can improve human-robot interaction for users with specialized listening needs or non-standard speech patterns.
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arXiv:2611.09914v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern, neural-based ASR and TTS systems for speech communication are now very sophisticated, but they are frequently designed for average users in more idealized scenarios, which can underperform when interacting with users having specialized listening needs, or who speak in non-standard ways. Here we review recent TTS research, and note that industrial, production-l
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evel implementations of adaptive TTS systems are scarce. We describe how we implemented changes to TTS systems based on prior research, and then report qualitative results from two case studies, where adapted TTS techniques are applied to real-world HRI settings: First, in an older adult care home, and second, in an airport, where noise levels create comprehension problems. Results suggest promising directions using
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relatively simple modifications to pitch, duration, and intensity of the robot's speech, and offer a framework for larger, more formal studies of how TTS adaptations can improve HRI.
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Industry case studies of adapting TTS for smooth interactions
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