Toward Emotionally Accessible Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).

This paper outlines an approach to evaluating the emotional content of three Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) using the affective computing approach of prosody detection on two different text-to-speech voices in conjunction with human raters judging the emotional content of course text. The inten...

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Published in:Studies in Health Technology & Informatics Vol. 242; pp. 851 - 855
Main Authors: Hillaire, Garron, Iniesto, Francisco, Rienties, Bart
Format: research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Sage Publications Inc. 2017
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Summary:This paper outlines an approach to evaluating the emotional content of three Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) using the affective computing approach of prosody detection on two different text-to-speech voices in conjunction with human raters judging the emotional content of course text. The intent of this work is to establish the potential variation on the emotional delivery of MOOC material through synthetic voice.