{"pk":29382,"title":"Embodiment and gender interact in alignment to TTS voices","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The current study tests subjects’ vocal alignment toward femaleand male text-to-speech (TTS) voices presented via threesystems: Amazon Echo, Nao, and Furhat. These systems vary intheir physical form, ranging from a cylindrical speaker (Echo), toa small robot (Nao), to a human-like robot bust (Furhat). We testwhether this cline of personification (cylinder < mini robot ","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"vocal alignment; embodiment; human-deviceinteraction; gender; text-to-speech"}],"section":"Gender and Individuals","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1dx8f8bj","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Michelle","middle_name":"","last_name":"Cohn","name_suffix":"","institution":"UC Davis","department":""},{"first_name":"Patrik","middle_name":"","last_name":"Jonell","name_suffix":"","institution":"KTH Royal Institute of Technology","department":""},{"first_name":"Taylor","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kim","name_suffix":"","institution":"UC Davis","department":""},{"first_name":"Jonas","middle_name":"","last_name":"Beskow","name_suffix":"","institution":"KTH Royal Institute of Technology,","department":""},{"first_name":"Georgia","middle_name":"","last_name":"Zellou","name_suffix":"","institution":"UC Davis","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2020-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/29382/galley/19243/download/"}]}