Bot or not: exploring the fine line between cyber and human identity

Mirjam Wester; Matthew Aylett; David A. Braude

doi:10.1145/3136755.3143027

Bot or not: exploring the fine line between cyber and human identity

Mirjam Wester, Matthew Aylett, David A. Braude

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Abstract

Speech technology is rapidly entering the everyday through the large scale commercial impact of systems such as Apple Siri and Amazon Echo. Meanwhile technology that allows voice cloning, voice modification, speech recognition, speech analytics and expressive speech synthesis has changed dramatically over recent years. The demonstration, described in this paper, is an educational tool in the form of an online quiz called `Bot or Not'. Using the quiz we have gathered impressions of what people realise is possible with current speech synthesis technology. The opinions of various groups regarding the synthesis of famous voices, sounding like a robot, and the difference between synthesis and voice modification were collected.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction 2017
Place of Publication	New York, NY, US
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	506-507
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Print)	9781450355438
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3136755.3143027
Publication status	Published - 3 Nov 2017
Event	19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction - Glasgow, United Kingdom Duration: 13 Nov 2017 → 17 Nov 2017

Conference

Conference	19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction
Abbreviated title	ICMI 2017
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Glasgow
Period	13/11/17 → 17/11/17

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Wester, M, Aylett, M & Braude, DA 2017, Bot or not: exploring the fine line between cyber and human identity. in Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction 2017. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, US, pp. 506-507, 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 13/11/17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3136755.3143027

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