Communicative facial displays as a new conversational modality
CHI '93 Proceedings of the INTERACT '93 and CHI '93 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
SIGGRAPH '94 Proceedings of the 21st annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
More than just a pretty face: affordances of embodiment
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Developing and evaluating conversational agents
Embodied conversational agents
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The integration of synthetic faces and voices (what we call "talking heads") allows to imagine new man-machine interfaces. But before making an extensive use of talking heads, several issues have to be checked according to their acceptability. An important issue is to make sure that the used synthetic voices match to their faces. The scope of this paper is to study the coherence that might exist between synthetic voices and faces. Twenty-four subjects rated the coherence of all combinations between five faces and three voices for female and male talking heads. The main results of this study show that every associations between faces and voices are not relevant and that some associations are better rated than others according to qualitative criteria.