{"id":212734,"date":"2026-05-12T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T15:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/cmu-research-shows-audio-can-make-ai-more-engaging-and-human-news\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T12:55:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T16:55:27","slug":"cmu-research-shows-audio-can-make-ai-more-engaging-and-human-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/cmu-research-shows-audio-can-make-ai-more-engaging-and-human-news\/","title":{"rendered":"CMU Research Shows Audio Can Make AI More Engaging and Human &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmu.edu\/news\/stories\/archives\/2026\/may\/cmu-research-shows-audio-can-make-ai-more-engaging-and-human\">CMU Research Shows Audio Can Make AI More Engaging and Human &#8211; News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmu.edu\/news\/stories\/archives\/2026\/may\/cmu-research-shows-audio-can-make-ai-more-engaging-and-human\">https:\/\/www.cmu.edu\/news\/stories\/archives\/2026\/may\/cmu-research-shows-audio-can-make-ai-more-engaging-and-human<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-12 11:49:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cmu.edu\">www.cmu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University are exploring how humans respond to AI agents that sound as if they are physically present in the same room.<\/li>\n<li>The interdisciplinary team from the School of Computer Science and the Department of Psychology worked together to create an audio-only interface for AI assistants through spatialization and Foley effects.<\/li>\n<li>Spatialization places AI agents in the room by making sounds associated with movement and actions, while Foley effects mimic real-world sounds like typing or shuffling papers.<\/li>\n<li>Participants interacting with the AI agents found the audio cues to make the assistant seem more humanlike but also expected it to follow social norms of attentiveness.<\/li>\n<li>Engaging results indicated that spatial and Foley effects increased user engagement but occasionally created a sense of distraction when the interface behavior conflicted with the user&#8217;s perception of attentiveness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CMU Research Shows Audio Can Make AI More Engaging and Human &#8211; News https:\/\/www.cmu.edu\/news\/stories\/archives\/2026\/may\/cmu-research-shows-audio-can-make-ai-more-engaging-and-human Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":212736,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.cmu.edu\/news\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-04\/ai-assistant-in-room.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212738,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212734\/revisions\/212738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}