Towards a flexible platform for voice accent and expression selection on a Healthcare Robot

Igic, Aleksandar; Watson, Catherine; Teutenberg, Jonathan; Tamagawa, Rie; MacDonald, Bruce; Broadbent, Elizabeth

dc.contributor.author	Igic, Aleksandar	en
dc.contributor.author	Watson, Catherine	en
dc.contributor.author	Teutenberg, Jonathan	en
dc.contributor.author	Tamagawa, Rie	en
dc.contributor.author	MacDonald, Bruce	en
dc.contributor.author	Broadbent, Elizabeth	en
dc.contributor.editor	Pizzato, LA	en
dc.contributor.editor	Schwitter, R	en
dc.coverage.spatial	Sydney	en
dc.date.accessioned	2011-11-14T20:17:42Z	en
dc.date.issued	2009	en
dc.identifier.citation	2009 Australasian Language Technology Workshop, Sydney, 03 Dec 2009 - 04 Dec 2009. Editors: Pizzato LA, Schwitter R. The Proceedings of the 2009 Australasian Language Technology Workshop. 7: 109-113. 2009	en
dc.identifier.issn	1834-7037	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2292/9021	en
dc.description.abstract	In the application of robots in healthcare, where there is a requirement to communicate vocally with non-expert users, a capacity to generate intelligible and expressive speech is needed. The Festival Speech Synthesis System is used as a framework for speech generation on our healthcare robot. Expression is added to speech by modifying mean pitch and pitch range parameters of a statistical model distributed with Festival. US and UK English diphone voices are evaluated alongside a newly made New Zealand English accented diphone voice by human judges. Results show judges can discern different accents and correctly identify the nationality of the voice.	en
dc.relation.ispartof	2009 Australasian Language Technology Workshop	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	The Proceedings of the 2009 Australasian Language Technology Workshop	en
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dc.title	Towards a flexible platform for voice accent and expression selection on a Healthcare Robot	en
dc.type	Conference Item	en
pubs.begin-page	109	en
pubs.volume	7	en
dc.rights.holder	Copyright: the author	en
pubs.author-url	http://aclweb.org/anthology/U/U09/U09-1016.pdf	en
pubs.end-page	113	en
pubs.finish-date	2009-12-04	en
pubs.start-date	2009-12-03	en
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pubs.subtype	Proceedings	en
pubs.elements-id	98635	en
pubs.org-id	Engineering	en
pubs.org-id	Department of Electrical, Computer and Software Engineering	en
pubs.org-id	Medical and Health Sciences	en
pubs.org-id	School of Medicine	en
pubs.org-id	Psychological Medicine Dept	en
pubs.record-created-at-source-date	2010-09-01	en