Evaluating and Personalizing User-Perceived Quality of Text-to-Speech Voices for Delivering Mindfulness Meditation with Different Physical Embodiments

no code implementations • 7 Jan 2024 • Zhonghao Shi, Han Chen, Anna-Maria Velentza, SiQi Liu, Nathaniel Dennler, Allison O'Connell, Maja Matarić

Building on findings from Phase 1, in Phase 2, an in-person within-subject study (N=94), we used a novel framework we developed for personalizing TTS voices based on user preferences, and evaluated user-perceived quality compared to best-rated non-personalized voices from Phase 1.