Towards autonomous synthesis of empathetic speech for a information system to obtain users' confidence
Project/Area Number |
15K00272
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
Human interface and interaction
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Research Institution | Tsuyama National College of Technology (2016-2017) Nara Institute of Science and Technology (2015) |
Principal Investigator |
Kawanami Hiromichi 津山工業高等専門学校, 総合理工学科, 特命准教授 (80335489)
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Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
神原 誠之 奈良先端科学技術大学院大学, 先端科学技術研究科, 准教授 (10346306)
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Project Period (FY) |
2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
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Budget Amount *help |
¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
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Keywords | ヒューマンインタフェイス / 対話システム / 韻律 / デジタルデバイド / 音声対話 / 音声インタフェイス / 声質変換 |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research aims to contribute to reduce mental barrier to an information system for those who are unfamiliar to such systems. We investigated two approaches to generate empathetic speech of a spoken dialogue system autonomously: (1)Synthesizing a response speech to mimic its user's speech especially prosody, (2)Generation and timing control of hierarchical responses consist of a back channel, a repetition of a user utterance and selected comments from SNS(Social Network Service). These methods are applied to a chat robot and the experimental result indicates that the methods encourage the users' to use the system continuously.
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