TY - GEN
T1 - "A Voice that Suits the Situation"
T2 - 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2022
AU - Byeon, Hyeon Jeong
AU - Lee, Chaerin
AU - Lee, Jeemin
AU - Oh, Uran
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by the MSIT(Ministry of Science and ICT), Korea, under the ITRC(Information Technology Research Center) support program(IITP-2021-2020-0-01460) supervised by the IITP(Institute for Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation). Also, this work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) grant funded by the Korea government(MSIT) (No. NRF2021R1F1A105278611).
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PY - 2022/4/29
Y1 - 2022/4/29
N2 - Although there is a potential demand for customizing voices, most customization is limited to the visual appearance of a figure (e.g., avatars). To better understand the users' need, we first conducted an online survey with 104 participants. Then we conducted a semi-structured interview with a prototype with 14 participants to identify design considerations for supporting voice customization. The results show that there is a desire for voice customization especially for non-face-to-face conversations with someone unfamiliar. In addition, the findings revealed that different voices are favored for different contexts from a better version of one's own voice for improving delivery to a completely different voice for securing identity. As future work, we plan to extend this study by investigating voice synthesis techniques for end-users who wish to design their own voices for various contexts.
AB - Although there is a potential demand for customizing voices, most customization is limited to the visual appearance of a figure (e.g., avatars). To better understand the users' need, we first conducted an online survey with 104 participants. Then we conducted a semi-structured interview with a prototype with 14 participants to identify design considerations for supporting voice customization. The results show that there is a desire for voice customization especially for non-face-to-face conversations with someone unfamiliar. In addition, the findings revealed that different voices are favored for different contexts from a better version of one's own voice for improving delivery to a completely different voice for securing identity. As future work, we plan to extend this study by investigating voice synthesis techniques for end-users who wish to design their own voices for various contexts.
KW - voice customization
KW - voice perception
KW - voice quality
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85130515728&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3491102.3501856
DO - 10.1145/3491102.3501856
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85130515728
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
BT - CHI 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 30 April 2022 through 5 May 2022
ER -