@inproceedings{a7965641b392408ea31a86ccfab47b59,
title = "A taking robot for the vocal communication by the mimicry of human voice",
abstract = "A talking and singing robot which adaptively learns the vocalization skill by an auditory feedback learning is being developed. The fundamental frequency and the spectrum envelope determine the principal characteristics of a sound. The former is the characteristic of a source sound generated by a vibrating object, and the latter is operated by the work of the resonance effects. In vocalization, the vibration of vocal cords generates a source sound, and then the sound wave is led to a vocal tract, which works as a resonance filter to determine the spectrum envelope. The paper describes the construction of vocal cords and a vocal tract for the realization of a talking and singing robot, together with the control algorithm for the acquisition of singing performance by mimicking human vocalization and singing voices. Generated voices were evaluated by listening experiments.",
keywords = "Adaptive learning, Neural network, Singing performance, Talking robot, Vocal cords, Vocal tract",
author = "Mitsuki Kitani and Tatsuya Hara and Hiroki Hanada and Hideyuki Sawada",
year = "2010",
doi = "10.1109/HSI.2010.5514489",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781424475605",
series = "3rd International Conference on Human System Interaction, HSI'2010 - Conference Proceedings",
pages = "728--733",
booktitle = "3rd International Conference on Human System Interaction, HSI'2010 - Conference Proceedings",
note = "3rd International Conference on Human System Interaction, HSI'2010 ; Conference date: 13-05-2010 Through 15-05-2010",
}