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Creating an African American-Sounding TTS: Guidelines, Technical Challenges,and Surprising Evaluations
March 19, 2024, 4:53 a.m. | Claudio Pinhanez, Raul Fernandez, Marcelo Grave, Julio Nogima, Ron Hoory
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Abstract: 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. In this paper we explore some unexpected challenges in the representation of race we found in the process of developing an U.S. English Text-to-Speech (TTS) system aimed to sound like an educated, professional, regional accent-free African American woman. The paper starts by presenting the results of …
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