Speak to me and I tell you who you are! A language-attitude study in a cultural-heritage application (original) (raw)

Abstract

When developing artificial companions, social attribution significantly influences the attitudes of humans towards the agents. We present results from a language-attitude study based on three synthetic varieties of Austrian German (a standard and two Viennese varieties) in the context of a cultural-heritage application. We show that language variety together with voice quality elicit attributions of different personas and influence the attitudes of the listeners toward the speakers.

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