What Do Robots Sound Like?

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. _______ Show notes/links: This month's guest is Professor Michael Schutz from McMaster Univer...

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. _______ Show notes: This month's guest is Adam Elman, a veteran voice designer with 20 years exper...

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. _______ Show notes: This month's guest is Chelsea Titus, Principal C...

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. _______ Show notes: This month's guest, Vasundhara Gupta, is a Senior UX Sound Designer at the Amazon Device...

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. _______ Show notes: This month's guest, Paul Bremner, is Associate Professor in Human-Robot Interaction at Br...

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. _______ 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: And...

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. _______ 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/...

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. _______ 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)...

Writer/Host Shell Game Podcast - 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. _______ Show notes: This month's guest, Evan Ratliff, is the writer and host of the 2024 smash hit podcast Shell Game. He is also an award winning investigative journalist and author, having written about tec...

Professor of Spoken Language Processing at the University of Sheffield - 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. _______ Show notes: This month's guest, Professor Roger Moore, is Professor of Spoken Language Processing at the University of Sheffield. He was head of the UK Govt’s Speech...

Chief Scientist at Furhat 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. _______ Show notes: This month's guest, Gabriel Skantze, is the Chief Scientist at Furhat Robotics - a robotics company based in Sweden. He is also Professor in Speech Communication and Technology, with a spec...

Creative Director at Plan8 - 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. _______ Show notes: This month's guest, Calle Stenqvist, is the Creative Director for Plan8 - a design agency for sound. Plan8 Website - https://plan8.se/ Calle's LinkedIn - https://se.linkedin.com/in/calle-stenqvist-...

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. _______ Show notes: This month's guest is UX sound designer Harrison Zafrin who, in his words, "nobody cares more about 8ms sound effects." Harrison works to design sound for multi-sensory interactions on technological devices...

Amazon Astro - Audio Lead & Character Lead - 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. _______ Show notes: This month's guest is composer and sound designer Mike Forst who released Amazon's home companion robot Astro. Mike worked as Audio Lead and then became Character Lead on that p...

Audio Lead for Sphero - R2D2, BB8, Lightning McQueen - 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. _______ Show notes: This month's guest is composer and sound designer Tracy Bush who worked at robotics company Sphero on several licensed robots from film - R2D2, BB8, Lightning McQueen. Tra...

Lead Audio for Anki - Vector / Cozmo - 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. _______ Show notes: This episode’s guest is Ben Gabaldon, formerly Audio Lead for robotics company Anki, where he shipped audio for robots Cozmo and Vector. Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-gabaldon...

Associate Professor of Sound Design - Centre for Interaction Design - Napier Edinburgh 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. _______ Show notes: This episode’s guest is Dr Iain McGregor, an Associate Professor of sound design at Edinburgh’s Napier University. Linkedin: h...

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