What should TTS for second language learners sound like? Paige Tuttosí @chocbearz and I are at #Interspeech2024 to present the results of a reverse correlation experiment to discover the ideal prosody to make difficult words more clear @duolingo @babbel @MangoLanguages
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Vanier PhD Scholarships for Academic Excellence and Research Leadership
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Vanier graduate scholarships for PhD studies in Canada. Looking for academic excellence, research potential and leadership. @SFU_CompSci https://
vanier.gc.ca/en/home-accuei
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Python Chatbot Curriculum Inspires High School CS Education
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"I took a programming class in high school and it was just… fun!" explained a 2nd year woman in my CS department. The high school used the Python chatbot curriculum I gave out to teachers for free 6 years ago. It's working!! @msyehuang
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Humans communicate without shared vocabulary understanding
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I love this – humans can still understand each other and communicate without a shared vocabulary.
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Can Robots Feel Music and Authentic Empathy?
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Could a robot be moved by music? Could robots have authentic feelings and empathy? A short talk I gave at @DCameron84
's AI-empathy conference which includes my "origin story" in working at the intersection of emotions and robots. https://
youtu.be/oJehPSPYpi4?si
=c0rvd8AMsS7tAjbY&t=676
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Should we build viscerally felt artificial emotions?
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Yes, but do we really want viscerally felt artificial emotions? What would be the rationale for building it, other than curiosity?
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LLaVA Contextual Emotion Recognition Demo Now Available
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For a limited time (next 3 hours) you can try our demo! https://
huggingface.co/spaces/yetesam
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Newborn Binary States: Innate Good-Bad Feedback Mechanisms
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I thought about newborn babies and how they already come "pre-wired" feeling the 2 physical states of good/bad. Hungry, cold, wet => distress signal. All systems go => quiet.
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Defining Positive Valence and Robot Well-being Through Homeostasis
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I looked at how we could define positive and negative valence for robots, linking physical distress to a "bad" gut feeling (e.g. low battery, overheating motors) and flourishing homeostasis to a "good" gut feeling.
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Yasaman Etesam presents emotion research at ISRE 2024
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Excited to present work by PhD candidate Yasaman Etesam at The International Society for Research on Emotion 2024 Conference in Belfast this Wednesday. Anyone else attending @ISREorg ? I'll be in town from Tues!