STUDIES: Corpus of Japanese Empathetic Dialogue Speech Towards Friendly Voice Agent

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We present STUDIES, a new speech corpus for developing a voice agent that can speak in a friendly manner.

• Humans naturally control their speech prosody to empathize with each other.
• By incorporating this "empathetic dialogue" behavior into a spoken dialogue system, we can develop a voice agent that can respond to a user more naturally.
• We designed the STUDIES corpus to include a speaker who speaks with empathy for the interlocutor's emotion explicitly.