Latest papers from Ryan P. McMahan
Communication in collaboration, especially synchronous, remote communication, is crucial to the success of task-specific goals. Insufficient or excessive forms of communication may lead to detrimental effects on task performance while increasing mental fatigue. However, identifying which combinations of communication…
Virtual humans can be used to deliver persuasive arguments; yet, those with synthetic text-to-speech (TTS) have been perceived less favorably than those with recorded human speech. In this paper, we investigate standard concatenative TTS and more advanced neural TTS. We conducted a 3x2 between-subjects experiment (n=7…
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