{"id":212735,"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-2\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T12:55:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T16:55:28","slug":"cmu-research-shows-audio-can-make-ai-more-engaging-and-human-news-2","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-2\/","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, collaborating with psychologists, are developing an audio-only interface for AI agents to make them seem physically present in the room, enhancing engagement in audio-only applications such as smart glasses.<\/li>\n<li>The team used spatialization to simulate voices moving and Foley effects to add realistic ambient sounds into conversations with AI agents and found that such interfaces make AI agents seem more humanlike, boosting engagement.<\/li>\n<li>Participants experienced an audio-only environment where AI agents mimicked physical presence by speaking, typing, and making other sounds, creating a realistic interaction environment.<\/li>\n<li>While the approach enhanced engagement, users expected AI agents to adhere to human social norms, finding it disconcerting and rude when the AI&#8217;s audio actions seemed inattentive or distracted, even when the actions were automated.<\/li>\n<li>The researchers believe that independent audio cues designed to correlate better with conversations could mitigate issues of perceived distraction and that the interface might work in diverse environments without being strictly office-specific.<\/li>\n<li>The team plans to present their findings at the Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026) in Barcelona.<\/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":212737,"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-212735","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\/212735"}],"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=212735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212739,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212735\/revisions\/212739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}