Expressive visual text-to-speech as an assistive technology for individuals with autism spectrum conditions

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Highlights：

• We show a videorealistic avatar, XpressiveTalk, which speaks in various emotional tones.

• The use as an assistive technology for people with autism spectrum conditions (ASC) is discussed.

• We carry out emotion-recognition and preference studies.

• Adults with ASC are less accurate than controls, but above chance levels for inferring emotions.

摘要

•We show a videorealistic avatar, XpressiveTalk, which speaks in various emotional tones.•The use as an assistive technology for people with autism spectrum conditions (ASC) is discussed.•We carry out emotion-recognition and preference studies.•Adults with ASC are less accurate than controls, but above chance levels for inferring emotions.

论文关键词：Autism spectrum conditions,Emotion recognition,Social cognition,Intervention,Assistive technology

论文评审过程：Received 29 March 2015, Revised 7 August 2015, Accepted 31 August 2015, Available online 27 May 2016, Version of Record 27 May 2016.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cviu.2015.08.011