Professor of Music Cognition and Percussion, McMaster University

Interviews on the topic of sound for human-robot interactions. Game audio designer Ali Tocher enjoys long form conversations with a wide range of guests.

Contact: whatdorobotssoundlike@gmail.com Any comments or guest suggestions are welcome.

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Show notes/links:

This month's guest is Professor Michael Schutz from McMaster University where he is Professor for Music Cognition and Percussion.

Professor Schutz's Ted talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap8geRll6F0

Patterson Alarm sounds paper: Alarm_Sounds_for_Medical_Equipment_in_Intensive_Care_Areas_and_Operating_Theatres

Alarm examples: https://th.id.au/alarms/

IEC alarm specification article: https://puiaudio.com/resource/iec-60601-8-application-guide/

Bernie Krause book: The Great Animal Orchestra

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Original Music: Mara Simpson "Ropes" https://marasimpson.bandcamp.com/

Original Artwork: Ben Pearce https://www.benpearce.com/

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20 year veteran voice designer, Amazon, Microsoft, Ford etc

Interviews on the topic of sound for human-robot interactions. Game audio designer Ali Tocher enjoys long form conversations with a wide range of guests.

Contact: whatdorobotssoundlike@gmail.com Any comments or guest suggestions are welcome.

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Show notes:

This month's guest is Adam Elman, a veteran voice designer with 20 years experience working on Amazon Alexa, Ford Sync, Xbox and more.

Adam's LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/vuiadam

Conversation design list, curated by Adam - https://medium.com/@aelman/list/conversation-design-d03ad47d84b8

Adam's "Favourite Sound" example I used was the trumpet stem from: "Carousel Ride" by Rubblebucket

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Original Music: Mara Simpson "Ropes" https://marasimpson.bandcamp.com/

Original Artwork: Ben Pearce https://www.benpearce.com/

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Principal Conversation Design | Amazon Lab 126, Emerging Products and Consumer Robotics -

Interviews on the topic of sound for human-robot interactions. Game audio designer Ali Tocher enjoys long form conversations with a wide range of guests.

Contact: whatdorobotssoundlike@gmail.com Any comments or guest suggestions are welcome.

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Show notes:

This month's guest is Chelsea Titus, Principal Conversation Design at Amazon Lab 126 - Emerging Products and Consumer Robotics

Chelsea's LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chelsea-titus-cat

Extra links

How button boards are changing human-canine communication: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTnVSJ8V4wk

Immanuel Kant quote: "Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made"

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Original Music: Mara Simpson "Ropes" https://marasimpson.bandcamp.com/

Original Artwork: Ben Pearce https://www.benpearce.com/

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Amazon Device Design Group - UX Sound Designer -

Interviews on the topic of sound for human-robot interactions. Game audio designer Ali Tocher enjoys long form conversations with a wide range of guests.

Contact: whatdorobotssoundlike@gmail.com Any comments or guest suggestions are welcome.

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Show notes:

This month's guest, Vasundhara Gupta, is a Senior UX Sound Designer at the Amazon Device Design Group.

N.B. One editorial note: we discuss the delicate art of tiny sounds that is the domain of the UX designer. We mention 3m/s sound (three one thousandths of a second), but realistically we should've been speaking in multiplications of 10, to quote Vasu; "3ms is not a number I play with haha. It’s more like 30!"

Vasu's website - https://www.vasundharagupta.com/

Extra links

Lata Mangeshkar (legendary Bollywood female lead playback singer) https://tidal.com/artist/30815

Audio UX Sonic branding https://www.auxnyc.com/about

Article about San Francisco Int'l Airport's quiet spaces project: https://www.airport-technology.com/features/san-francisco-quiet-airport/

***SPECIAL THANKS***

Original Music: Mara Simpson "Ropes" https://marasimpson.bandcamp.com/

Original Artwork: Ben Pearce https://www.benpearce.com/

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Associate Professor - HRI - Bristol Robotics Lab -

Interviews on the topic of sound for human-robot interactions. Game audio designer Ali Tocher enjoys long form conversations with a wide range of guests.

Contact: whatdorobotssoundlike@gmail.com I welcome any comments or guest suggestions.

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Show notes:

This month's guest, Paul Bremner, is Associate Professor in Human-Robot Interaction at Bristol Robotics Laboratory

Paul's publications - https://scholar.google.fr/

Extra links

Bristol Robotics Lab - https://www.bristolroboticslab.com/Core-Staff

Sellafield UK Nuclear site - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sellafield

Paro seal robot - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJq5PQZHU-I

Geminoid realistic clone robot - https://robotsguide.com/robots/geminoidhi1

***SPECIAL THANKS***

Original Music: Mara Simpson "Ropes" https://marasimpson.bandcamp.com/

Original Artwork: Ben Pearce https://www.benpearce.com/

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Human Robot Interview -

Interviews on the topic of sound for human-robot interactions. Game audio designer Ali Tocher enjoys long form conversations with a wide range of guests.

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Show notes:

This month's episode was experimental. With the help of my friend Matt I attempted something I've been thinking about for a while. A human robot interaction - with ChatGPT as the robot.

Extra links:

Andrej Karpathy explains the workings of Large Language Models (1hr) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjkBMFhNj_g

***SPECIAL THANKS***

Original Music: Mara Simpson "Ropes" https://marasimpson.bandcamp.com/

Original Artwork: Ben Pearce https://www.benpearce.com/

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Composer and sound designer for games -

Interviews on the topic of sound for human-robot interactions. Game audio designer Ali Tocher enjoys long form conversations with a wide range of guests.

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Show notes:

This month's guest, Kenny Young, is a 9x academy nominated composer and sound designer for games (he got one more since I recorded the intro!!)

Kenny's website - https://www.audbod.com/

Kenny on socials: bsky - https://bsky.app/profile/kcmyoung.bsky.social Twitter - https://x.com/kcmyoung

Extra links

AURA at the sphere - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfRo2qLMcUw

"Enshittification" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

Astrobot game trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unYFdcEjV9k

***SPECIAL THANKS***

Original Music: Mara Simpson "Ropes" https://marasimpson.bandcamp.com/

Original Artwork: Ben Pearce https://www.benpearce.com/

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Director of the Human-Robot Interaction Lab Sønderborg -

Interviews on the topic of sound for human-robot interactions. Game audio designer Ali Tocher enjoys long form conversations with a wide range of guests.

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Show notes:

This month's guest, Professor Kerstin Fischer from University of Southern Denmark, she is Director of the Human-Robot Interaction Lab Sønderborg and

Professor (MSO) for Language and Technology Interaction.

Kerstin's Google Scholar page - https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CSf7_Q0AAAAJ&hl=en

Kerstin's LinkedIn - https://dk.linkedin.com/in/kerstin-fischer-sdu

Extra links

Pepper Robot https://us.softbankrobotics.com/pepper

***SPECIAL THANKS***

Original Music: Mara Simpson "Ropes" https://marasimpson.bandcamp.com/

Original Artwork: Ben Pearce https://www.benpearce.com/

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