Monday, June 4, 2018

The True Limits of Believability



Not a bad problem to have. Robot voices have become so good that we can't tell they're robots anymore. But this is against our unspoken code of ethics; we as humans have to know when we're dealing with something that is indistinguishable from a human when it's not. (Unless it's a dating website of course.)

Notes

What happens when the robots sound too much like humans?
May 2018, phys.org

The assistant added pauses, "ums" and "mmm-hmms" to its speech in order to sound more human as it spoke with real employees at a hair salon and a restaurant.

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