TY - GEN
T1 - A mechanical voice system and its adaptive learning for the mimicry of human vocalization
AU - Higashimoto, Toshio
AU - Sawada, Hideyuki
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2003 IEEE.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - A mechanical model of a human vocal system is being developed based on mechatronics technology. Although various ways of vocal sound production have been actively studied, mechanical construction is considered to advantageously realize natural vocalization with its fluid dynamics. The mechanical vocal system has several motors to manipulate the vocal tract and the vocal cords. It became possible to learn the relations between motor positions and the produced vocal sounds by an auditory feedback, and produce Japanese five vowels (a, i, u, e, o) by mimicking a human speech. In addition, the mechanical model could produce some consonant sounds by attaching a nasal cavity with the dynamic control. This paper introduces an adaptive learning algorithm for the mimicry of human vocalization, and presents a listening experiment of generated sounds for the evaluation.
AB - A mechanical model of a human vocal system is being developed based on mechatronics technology. Although various ways of vocal sound production have been actively studied, mechanical construction is considered to advantageously realize natural vocalization with its fluid dynamics. The mechanical vocal system has several motors to manipulate the vocal tract and the vocal cords. It became possible to learn the relations between motor positions and the produced vocal sounds by an auditory feedback, and produce Japanese five vowels (a, i, u, e, o) by mimicking a human speech. In addition, the mechanical model could produce some consonant sounds by attaching a nasal cavity with the dynamic control. This paper introduces an adaptive learning algorithm for the mimicry of human vocalization, and presents a listening experiment of generated sounds for the evaluation.
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U2 - 10.1109/CIRA.2003.1222323
DO - 10.1109/CIRA.2003.1222323
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:8844251682
T3 - Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, CIRA
SP - 1040
EP - 1045
BT - Proceedings - 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, CIRA 2003
Y2 - 16 July 2003 through 20 July 2003
ER -