TY - GEN
T1 - Development of a talking robot with vocal cords and lips having human-like biological structures
AU - Fukui, Kotaro
AU - Nishikawa, Kazufumi
AU - Ikeo, Shunsuke
AU - Shintaku, Eiji
AU - Takada, Kentaro
AU - Takanobu, Hideaki
AU - Honda, Masaaki
AU - Takanishi, Atsuo
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - We have developed a new talking robot, WT-5 (Waseda Talker No. 5), having novel vocal cords and lips based on human biological structures. The vocal cords are made from the thermoplastic rubber "Septon", available from Kuraray Co. Ltd, which has a similar elasticity to human tissue. The vocal cord model was constructed with a similar structure to the biological structure of the human vocal cords. The vocal cords vibrated like those of a human. The new lips were able to attain a large deformation in a similar manner to human lips, without the leakage of air. This allowed clear pronunciation of vowels. With these new mechanisms, the robot could reproduce human speech in a more biological manner and could produce voices closer to those of a human.
AB - We have developed a new talking robot, WT-5 (Waseda Talker No. 5), having novel vocal cords and lips based on human biological structures. The vocal cords are made from the thermoplastic rubber "Septon", available from Kuraray Co. Ltd, which has a similar elasticity to human tissue. The vocal cord model was constructed with a similar structure to the biological structure of the human vocal cords. The vocal cords vibrated like those of a human. The new lips were able to attain a large deformation in a similar manner to human lips, without the leakage of air. This allowed clear pronunciation of vowels. With these new mechanisms, the robot could reproduce human speech in a more biological manner and could produce voices closer to those of a human.
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U2 - 10.1109/IROS.2005.1545356
DO - 10.1109/IROS.2005.1545356
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33845587109
SN - 0780389123
SN - 9780780389120
T3 - 2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS
SP - 2023
EP - 2028
BT - 2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS
PB - IEEE Computer Society
ER -