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The Effect Of Voice Gender And Spoken Messages In Augmented Interactions, Katrina Lapham

Honors College

A speech-generating device is often implemented to aid communication for those with limited ability to produce mouth speech. Although these devices have come a long way since their initial development, there are still pervasive problems regarding augmentative and alternative (AAC) technology. These problems include communication rate, intelligibility of the synthesized voice, and the effectiveness of the synthesized speech to transfer information for a variety of interactions. Additionally, the device is responsible for portraying unique information about the augmented speaker, including their competence, individuality and identity. This investigation sought to contribute to efforts aimed at understanding the impact of computer-generated voice …