Table 2.
Means and standard deviations of the ratings of the five voices.
| Human-likeness* | Eeriness* | Pleasantness** | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |||
| All voices | 2.27 | 1.13 | All voices | 2.81 | 0.93 | All voices | 2.81 | 1.20 |
| Human | 3.85 | 0.93 | Human | 2.14 | 0.80 | Human | 4.06 | 0.89 |
| Synthetic I | 2.19 | 0.60 | Synthetic I | 2.41 | 0.80 | Synthetic I | 3.15 | 0.96 |
| Synthetic II | 1.99 | 0.97 | Synthetic II | 2.82 | 0.79 | Synthetic II | 2.64 | 1.03 |
| Comic | 1.65 | 0.65 | Comic | 3.32 | 0.75 | Comic | 1.90 | 0.91 |
| Metallic | 1.52 | 0.42 | Metallic | 3.45 | 0.79 | Metallic | 2.16 | 0.87 |
NAll = 163, NHuman = 34, NSynthetic I = 34, NSynthetic II = 33, NMetallic = 31, NComic = 31.
Rated on a five-point semantic differential scale.
Rated on a five-point Likert scale from 1 (very unpleasant) to 5 (very pleasant).