Synthetic versus human voices in audiobooks: the human emotional intimacy effect
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- dc.contributor.author Rodero Antón, Emma
- dc.contributor.author Lucas, Ignacio
- dc.date.accessioned 2022-06-02T05:55:47Z
- dc.date.available 2022-06-02T05:55:47Z
- dc.date.issued 2021
- dc.description.abstract Human voices narrate most audiobooks, but the fast development of speech synthesis technology has enabled the possibility of using artificial voices. This raises the question of whether the listeners’ cognitive processing is the same when listening to a synthetic or a human voice telling a story. This research aims to compare the listeners’ perception, creation of mental images, narrative engagement, physiological response, and recognition of information when listening to stories conveyed by human and synthetic voices. The results showed that listeners enjoyed stories narrated by a human voice more than a synthetic one. Also, they created more mental images, were more engaged, paid more attention, had a more positive emotional response, and remembered more information. Speech synthesis has experienced considerable progress. However, there are still significant differences versus human voices, so that using them to narrate long stories, such as audiobooks do, is difficult.
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- dc.identifier.citation Rodero E, Lucas I. Synthetic versus human voices in audiobooks: the human emotional intimacy effect. New Media Soc. 2023;25(7):1746-64. DOI: 10.1177/14614448211024142
- dc.identifier.doi http://doi.org/10.1177/14614448211024142
- dc.identifier.issn 1461-4448
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/53353
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher SAGE Publications
- dc.relation.ispartof New media & society. 2023;25(7):1746-64.
- dc.rights Rodero E, Lucas I. Synthetic versus human voices in audiobooks: the human emotional intimacy effect. New Media Soc. 2021. 31 p. Copyright © 2021 SAGE. DOI: 10.1177/14614448211024142
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- dc.subject.keyword Audiobooks
- dc.subject.keyword cognitive processing
- dc.subject.keyword human voice
- dc.subject.keyword perception
- dc.subject.keyword physiological response
- dc.subject.keyword synthetic voice
- dc.subject.keyword talking books
- dc.title Synthetic versus human voices in audiobooks: the human emotional intimacy effect
- dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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