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Do You Speak American?
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They thought to solve it by substituting synthetic voices so clearly nonhuman that people would not succumb to gender stereotypes, but people still did.†
Chpt 8 *
Nass believes that in three to five years synthetic speech will be indistinguishable from human speech.†
Chpt 8
When people are confronted with a synthetic face like Baldi's and a synthetic voice, they are very accepting and comfortable with it.†
Chpt 8
When people are confronted with a synthetic face like Baldi's and a synthetic voice, they are very accepting and comfortable with it.†
Chpt 8
The same is true when they use a real human face and match it with a synthetic voice.†
Chpt 8
Even though people in general like a human voice better than synthetic one, when it's paired with an artificial face, like Baldi's, it triggers feelings of suspicion and worry.†
Chpt 8
Respondents trust both mismatches less than the voice/face combinations when both are real or both are synthetic.†
Chpt 8
"Even obvious synthetic speech, like Baldi's," Nass said, "will be assigned a gender, will be assigned an emotion, an accent, a location in the country, a personality—the entire range of things that we do when we hear a human voice.†
Chpt 8
So, if there is a synthetic female voice, or a real female voice from a computer, that computer is now a female, from Alabama, with all the stereotypes that we would associate with an actual human female from Alabama.†
Chpt 8

Definitions:

(1) (synthetic)
artificial (man-made rather than natural); or not genuine
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
A comprehensive dictionary will have more specialized definitions of synthetic which are used in such fields as Philosophy and Linguistics.