Realization of Vowels and Consonant Sounds Using a Talking Robot (3rd Report, Development of a New Talking Robot for Human-Like Voices)

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

doi:10.1299/kikaic.69.1879

Realization of Vowels and Consonant Sounds Using a Talking Robot (3rd Report, Development of a New Talking Robot for Human-Like Voices)

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

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The purpose of this research is to clarify a human vocal mechanism from the engineering viewpoints by reproducing a human vocal movement with an anthropomorphic talking robot. The authors developed a new talking robot WT-2 (Waseda Talker-No. 2) that improved on WT-1R for the production of human voices. WT-2 has the lung, vocal cords, vocal cavity and nasal cavity. The total DOF is 15. The length of the vocal tract is about 175 [mm] and almost same as an adult male's. Compared with WT-1 or WT-1R those had been developed before, WT-2 could utter Japanese vowels more clearly, and produce stops, fricatives and nasal sounds using a new flexible tongue-mechanism and the decrease of the sound leak from many craps except for the lips or nostrils.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1879-1884
Number of pages	6
Journal	Nippon Kikai Gakkai Ronbunshu, C Hen/Transactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Part C
Volume	69
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1299/kikaic.69.1879
Publication status	Published - 2003 Jul

Keywords

Humanoid Robot
Speech Organ
Speech Production
Speech Synthesis
Voice

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Mechanics of Materials
Mechanical Engineering
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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Nishikawa, K., Hayashi, K., Takanobu, H., Mochida, T., Honda, M., & Takanishi, A. (2003). Realization of Vowels and Consonant Sounds Using a Talking Robot (3rd Report, Development of a New Talking Robot for Human-Like Voices). Nippon Kikai Gakkai Ronbunshu, C Hen/Transactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Part C, 69(7), 1879-1884. https://doi.org/10.1299/kikaic.69.1879

Realization of Vowels and Consonant Sounds Using a Talking Robot (3rd Report, Development of a New Talking Robot for Human-Like Voices). / Nishikawa, Kazufumi; Hayashi, Kouki; Takanobu, Hideaki et al.

In: Nippon Kikai Gakkai Ronbunshu, C Hen/Transactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Part C, Vol. 69, No. 7, 07.2003, p. 1879-1884.

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Nishikawa, K, Hayashi, K, Takanobu, H, Mochida, T, Honda, M & Takanishi, A 2003, 'Realization of Vowels and Consonant Sounds Using a Talking Robot (3rd Report, Development of a New Talking Robot for Human-Like Voices)', Nippon Kikai Gakkai Ronbunshu, C Hen/Transactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Part C, vol. 69, no. 7, pp. 1879-1884. https://doi.org/10.1299/kikaic.69.1879

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