Development of a New Human-like Talking Robot Having Advanced Vocal Tract Mechanisms

Kazufumi Nishikawa; Hideaki Takanobu; Takemi Mochida; Masaaki Honda; Atsuo Takanishi

Development of a New Human-like Talking Robot Having Advanced Vocal Tract Mechanisms

Kazufumi Nishikawa^*, Hideaki Takanobu, Takemi Mochida, Masaaki Honda, Atsuo Takanishi

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Abstract

This paper describes the development of a new talking robot WT-2 that improved on WT-1R and has advanced vocal tract mechanisms for the reproduction of human vocal movement. WT-2 consists lungs, vocal cords, a vocal cavity and nasal cavity; the total DOF is 15. The length of the vocal tract is about 175[mm] and is almost the same as that of an adult male. Compared to WT-1 or WT-1R developed previously, WT-2 could utter Japanese vowels more clearly, and produce stops, fricatives and nasal sounds by a new flexible tongue mechanism as well as decrease sound leaks from the tongue except those from the lips or nostrils.

Original language	English
Pages	1907-1913
Number of pages	7
Publication status	Published - 2003 Dec 26
Event	2003 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems - Las Vegas, NV, United States Duration: 2003 Oct 27 → 2003 Oct 31

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Conference	2003 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
Country/Territory	United States
City	Las Vegas, NV
Period	03/10/27 → 03/10/31

Keywords

Humanoid Robot
Mechanical Model
Speech Production
Speech Synthesis

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Control and Systems Engineering
Software
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computer Science Applications

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