STUDIES: Corpus of Japanese Empathetic Dialogue Speech Towards Friendly Voice Agent. (arXiv:2203.14757v2 [cs.SD] UPDATED)

Web: http://arxiv.org/abs/2203.14757

We present STUDIES, a new speech corpus for developing a voice agent that can
speak in a friendly manner. Humans naturally control their speech prosody to
empathize with each other. By incorporating this "empathetic dialogue" behavior
into a spoken dialogue system, we can develop a voice agent that can respond to
a user more naturally. We designed the STUDIES corpus to include a speaker who
speaks with empathy for the interlocutor's emotion explicitly. We describe our
methodology to construct an …

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