obandsoller ([info]obandsoller) wrote,
@ 2008-09-17 11:41:00
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I just walked into the office and an officemate was on the phone, speaking in a clear monotone with with slightly-too-long spaces between each word.

You know the way that people tend to take on speech patterns, phrases, and mannerisms of people they're talking to? I hadn't consciously realised till right now that we do the same when talking to robots.

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[info]clarehooper
2008-09-17 11:09 am UTC (link)
Ah, but no one trusts voice recognition tech - hence we try and talk very clearly with spaces between words - I think it's more about not thinking we'll be understood otherwise, than about copying the mannerism of the recorded voice. Perhaps?

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[info]obandsoller
2008-09-17 02:31 pm UTC (link)
To a large degree you're right, and I'm just choosing to see things in a skewed way (I like the idea of Robots having their own accent). But isn't the natural mimicry we do with other humans a similar kind of not trusting our natural way of speaking to be understood? (Whatever natural means!) And our adoption of their way of speaking, being our way of speaking in what seems clearest in this context?

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[info]clarehooper
2008-09-17 03:39 pm UTC (link)
For sure; I love the idea of robots having an accent, too :)

I think our adoption of how we speak around others is fascinating. Something to do with showing empathy? I do not know!

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[info]obandsoller
2008-09-17 11:32 pm UTC (link)
I don't know either. A whole matrix of complicated reasons I reckon. There's probably a PhD or few in it :-).

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