Enhancing robot voice by implementing text-to-speech solutions

Abstract

The Institute for Information Systems of FHNW School of Business possesses several humanoid social robots, such as Pepper, and Joey. These robots use different in-built text-to-speech systems. However, these solutions offer only one voice. This work aims to find a new TTS system, which will offer a better voice for the robot Joey in German language and a male and female voice. The experience of people interacting with Joey could be enhanced by identifying and implementing a more suitable voice.