Communicative facial displays as a new conversational modality
INTERCHI '93 Proceedings of the INTERCHI '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
The effect of embodied conversational agents’ speech quality on users’ attention and emotion
ACII'05 Proceedings of the First international conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction
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The integration of synthetic faces and text-to-speech voice synthesis (what we call "talking heads") allows new applications in the area of man-machine interfaces. In a close future, talking heads might be useful communicative interface agents. But before making an extensive use of talking heads, several issues have to be checked according to their acceptability by users. 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 the combinations between ten faces and six voices. The main results of this paper show that not all associations between faces and voices are relevant and that some associations are better rated than others according to qualitative criteria.