Does ChatGPT and Whisper Make Humanoid Robots More Relatable?

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Autori principali: Chen, Xiaohui, Luo, Katherine, Gee, Trevor, Nejati, Mahla
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author Chen, Xiaohui
Luo, Katherine
Gee, Trevor
Nejati, Mahla
author_facet Chen, Xiaohui
Luo, Katherine
Gee, Trevor
Nejati, Mahla
contents Humanoid robots are designed to be relatable to humans for applications such as customer support and helpdesk services. However, many such systems, including Softbank's Pepper, fall short because they fail to communicate effectively with humans. The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) shows the potential to solve the communication barrier for humanoid robotics. This paper outlines the comparison of different Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) APIs, the integration of Whisper ASR and ChatGPT with the Pepper robot and the evaluation of the system (Pepper-GPT) tested by 15 human users. The comparison result shows that, compared to the Google ASR and Google Cloud ASR, the Whisper ASR performed best as its average Word Error Rate (1.716%) and processing time (2.639 s) are both the lowest. The participants' usability investigations show that 60% of the participants thought the performance of the Pepper-GPT was "excellent", while the rest rated this system as "good" in the subsequent experiments. It is proved that while some problems still need to be overcome, such as the robot's multilingual ability and facial tracking capacity, users generally responded positively to the system, feeling like talking to an actual human.
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spellingShingle Does ChatGPT and Whisper Make Humanoid Robots More Relatable?
Chen, Xiaohui
Luo, Katherine
Gee, Trevor
Nejati, Mahla
Robotics
Human-Computer Interaction
Humanoid robots are designed to be relatable to humans for applications such as customer support and helpdesk services. However, many such systems, including Softbank's Pepper, fall short because they fail to communicate effectively with humans. The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) shows the potential to solve the communication barrier for humanoid robotics. This paper outlines the comparison of different Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) APIs, the integration of Whisper ASR and ChatGPT with the Pepper robot and the evaluation of the system (Pepper-GPT) tested by 15 human users. The comparison result shows that, compared to the Google ASR and Google Cloud ASR, the Whisper ASR performed best as its average Word Error Rate (1.716%) and processing time (2.639 s) are both the lowest. The participants' usability investigations show that 60% of the participants thought the performance of the Pepper-GPT was "excellent", while the rest rated this system as "good" in the subsequent experiments. It is proved that while some problems still need to be overcome, such as the robot's multilingual ability and facial tracking capacity, users generally responded positively to the system, feeling like talking to an actual human.
title Does ChatGPT and Whisper Make Humanoid Robots More Relatable?
topic Robotics
Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.07095