Creating an African American-Sounding TTS: Guidelines, Technical Challenges,and Surprising Evaluations

no code implementations • 17 Mar 2024 • Claudio Pinhanez, Raul Fernandez, Marcelo Grave, Julio Nogima, Ron Hoory

Representations of AI agents in user interfaces and robotics are predominantly White, not only in terms of facial and skin features, but also in the synthetic voices they use.

Attribute

Using Meta-Knowledge Mined from Identifiers to Improve Intent Recognition in Conversational Systems

no code implementations • ACL 2021 • Claudio Pinhanez, Paulo Cavalin, Victor Henrique Alves Ribeiro, Ana Appel, Heloisa Candello, Julio Nogima, Mauro Pichiliani, Melina Guerra, Maira de Bayser, Gabriel Malfatti, Henrique Ferreira

In this paper we explore the improvement of intent recognition in conversational systems by the use of meta-knowledge embedded in intent identifiers.

Intent Recognition

Using Meta-Knowledge Mined from Identifiers to Improve Intent Recognition in Neuro-Symbolic Algorithms

no code implementations • 16 Dec 2020 • Claudio Pinhanez, Paulo Cavalin, Victor Ribeiro, Heloisa Candello, Julio Nogima, Ana Appel, Mauro Pichiliani, Maira Gatti de Bayser, Melina Guerra, Henrique Ferreira, Gabriel Malfatti

By using neuro-symbolic algorithms able to incorporate such proto-taxonomies to expand intent representation, we show that such mined meta-knowledge can improve accuracy in intent recognition.

Chatbot Intent Recognition