Speech Synthesis for the Generation of Artificial Personality

A synthetic voice personifies the system using it. In this work we examine the impact text content, voice quality and synthesis system have on the perceived personality of two synthetic voices. Subjects rated synthetic utterances based on the Big-Five personality traits and naturalness. The naturaln...

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Published inIEEE transactions on affective computing Vol. 11; no. 2; pp. 361 - 372
Main Authors Aylett, Matthew P., Vinciarelli, Alessandro, Wester, Mirjam
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Piscataway IEEE 01.04.2020
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects
automatic personality perception
automatic personality recognition
automatic personality synthesis
Computational modeling
Digital signal processing
Hidden Markov models
Personality
Psychology
Robots
Speech
Speech recognition
Speech synthesis
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1949-3045
DOI10.1109/TAFFC.2017.2763134

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Abstract A synthetic voice personifies the system using it. In this work we examine the impact text content, voice quality and synthesis system have on the perceived personality of two synthetic voices. Subjects rated synthetic utterances based on the Big-Five personality traits and naturalness. The naturalness rating of synthesis output did not correlate significantly with any Big-Five characteristic except for a marginal correlation with openness. Although text content is dominant in personality judgments, results showed that voice quality change implemented using a unit selection synthesis system significantly affected the perception of the Big-Five, for example tense voice being associated with being disagreeable and lax voice with lower conscientiousness. In addition a comparison between a parametric implementation and unit selection implementation of the same voices showed that parametric voices were rated as significantly less neurotic than both the text alone and the unit selection system, while the unit selection was rated as more open than both the text alone and the parametric system. The results have implications for synthesis voice and system type selection for applications such as personal assistants and embodied conversational agents where developing an emotional relationship with the user, or developing a branding experience is important.
AbstractList A synthetic voice personifies the system using it. In this work we examine the impact text content, voice quality and synthesis system have on the perceived personality of two synthetic voices. Subjects rated synthetic utterances based on the Big-Five personality traits and naturalness. The naturalness rating of synthesis output did not correlate significantly with any Big-Five characteristic except for a marginal correlation with openness. Although text content is dominant in personality judgments, results showed that voice quality change implemented using a unit selection synthesis system significantly affected the perception of the Big-Five, for example tense voice being associated with being disagreeable and lax voice with lower conscientiousness. In addition a comparison between a parametric implementation and unit selection implementation of the same voices showed that parametric voices were rated as significantly less neurotic than both the text alone and the unit selection system, while the unit selection was rated as more open than both the text alone and the parametric system. The results have implications for synthesis voice and system type selection for applications such as personal assistants and embodied conversational agents where developing an emotional relationship with the user, or developing a branding experience is important.
Author Vinciarelli, Alessandro
Aylett, Matthew P.
Wester, Mirjam
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SubjectTerms automatic personality perception
automatic personality recognition
automatic personality synthesis
Computational modeling
Digital signal processing
Hidden Markov models
Personality
Psychology
Robots
Speech
Speech recognition
Speech synthesis
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