Siri, echo and performance: You have to suffer darling

Matthew P. Aylett; Benjamin R. Cowan; Leigh Clark

doi:10.1145/3290607.3310422

Siri, echo and performance: You have to suffer darling

Matthew P. Aylett, Benjamin R. Cowan, Leigh Clark

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Don't ignore this because its about speech technology. VUIs (voice user interfaces) won a best paper in CHI 2018. Did that get your attention? Good. Siri, Ivona, Google Home, and most speech synthesis systems have voices which are based on imitating a neutral citation style of speech and making it sound natural. But, in the real world, darling, people have to act, to perform! In this paper we will talk about speech synthesis as performance, why the uncanny valley is a bankrupt concept, and how academics can escape from studying corporate speech technology as if it's been bestowed by God.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Print)	9781450359719
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3310422
Publication status	Published - 2 May 2019

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