Dear Paul,
There is a huge amount published on this
topic – and many good textbooks much more recent than those you cite.
A couple of texts that address the points that I think you are interested in
are …
- Nass,
C., & Brave, S. (2005). Wired for Speech: How Voice Activates and
Advances the Human-computer Relationship. Cambridge, MA:
MIT Press.
- Balentine,
B. (2007). It's Better to Be a Good Machine Than a Bad Person: Speech
Recognition and Other Exotic User Interfaces at the Twilight of the
Jetsonian Age: ICMI Press.
To find out more about the basic
underlying technologies, I particularly recommend …
Holmes, J. N., & Holmes, W. (2002).
Speech Synthesis and Recognition: Taylor & Francis.
… and to find out about ‘expressive’
(i.e. emotional) speech, take a look at the HUMAINE website - http://emotion-research.net/
Good luck
Roger Moore
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From: AUDITORY -
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On Behalf Of Paul Grant
Sent: 06 April 2009 17:59
To: AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [AUDITORY] Talking to
Computers
Dear Auditory list,
I am currently writing my dissertation on computer speech, or more specifically
human reaction, response and feelings when engaging in conversation with a
machine. The study is focusing on systems like "expressive speech
synthesis" (the computer analysing the incoming human voice and responding
accordingly) and asking whether we are ready and willing to engage with
technology like this.
I am having trouble finding literature that covers this subject; I have found a
lot of theory-based writing, such as Principles of Computer Speech, (Witten,
1982) and Electronic Synthesis of Speech, (Linggard 1985) covering speech
synthesis itself but not much on what happens to humans when using it.
If anybody can suggest any books, journals or articles that would be a great
help.
Thank you.
Paul Grant
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