Playful Interaction with Voice Sensing Modular Robots

This paper describes a voice sensor, suitable for modular robotic systems, which estimates the energy and fundamental frequency, F 0, of the user's voice. Through a number of example applications and tests with children, we observe how the voice sensor facilitates playful interaction between children and two different robot configurations. In future work, we will investigate if such a system can motivate children to improve voice control and explore how to extend the sensor to detect emotions in the user's voice.

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