A Synthetic Voice for an Assistive Conversational Agent: A Survey to Discover Italian Preferences regarding Synthetic Voice’s Gender and Quality Level

<table class="table-group" id="tab3"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="3"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left">Age influence (%)</td><td class="align_center">Yes, it affects</td><td class="align_center">No, I do not care</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="3"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Adolescents</td><td class="align_center">32.45%</td><td class="align_center">67.55%</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Young adults</td><td class="align_center">36.67%</td><td class="align_center">63.33%</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Middle-aged</td><td class="align_center">18.89%</td><td class="align_center">81.11%</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Seniors</td><td class="align_center">36.11%</td><td class="align_center">63.89%</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="3"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<div>Age range influence responses’ percentages attributed to the voices according to age groups. This item of section 4 entailed a dichotomic response: yes, it affects/no, I do not care.</div>

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Table 3: A Synthetic Voice for an Assistive Conversational Agent: A Survey to Discover Italian Preferences regarding Synthetic Voice’s Gender and Quality Level 

Table 3 | A Synthetic Voice for an Assistive Conversational Agent: A Survey to Discover Italian Preferences regarding Synthetic Voice’s Gender and Quality Level 