The Uncanny Valley Nobody's Talking About: Eerie Robot Voices
The Uncanny Valley Nobody's Talking About: Eerie Robot Voices
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
March 18, 20196m 26s
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Show Notes
Call it the Great Convergence of Creepiness. The first bit, the uncanny valley, we’re all familiar with by now: If a humanoid robot looks super realistic, but not quite realistic enough, it freaks us out. So far that idea has been applied almost entirely to robot faces and bodies, but it’s less known as a phenomenon in robot voices. Except, that is, to Kozminski University roboticist Aleksandra Przegalinska, also a research fellow at MIT.
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