TY - GEN
T1 - A talking robot and its singing skill acquisition
AU - Nakamura, Mitsuhiro
AU - Sawada, Hideyuki
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - A talking and singing robot which has equivalent mechanical organs to human vocal system is being developed based on a mechatronics technology under a feedback control. While various ways of vocal sound production have been actively studied so far, a mechanical construction of the vocal system is considered to advantageously realize natural vocalization with its fluid dynamics. Motors are employed for the manipulation of the mechanical system. The robot adaptively learns the relations between motor control parameters and the generated vocal sounds using an auditory feedback learning with neural networks, and sings a song by mimicking a human vocalization. This paper presents the construction of the talking robot and its singing performance, together with the adaptive control for the pitch and phoneme learning. The robot generates vowel and consonant sounds of different pitches by dynamically controlling the vocal cords, vocal tract and nasal cavity.
AB - A talking and singing robot which has equivalent mechanical organs to human vocal system is being developed based on a mechatronics technology under a feedback control. While various ways of vocal sound production have been actively studied so far, a mechanical construction of the vocal system is considered to advantageously realize natural vocalization with its fluid dynamics. Motors are employed for the manipulation of the mechanical system. The robot adaptively learns the relations between motor control parameters and the generated vocal sounds using an auditory feedback learning with neural networks, and sings a song by mimicking a human vocalization. This paper presents the construction of the talking robot and its singing performance, together with the adaptive control for the pitch and phoneme learning. The robot generates vowel and consonant sounds of different pitches by dynamically controlling the vocal cords, vocal tract and nasal cavity.
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U2 - 10.1007/11553939_127
DO - 10.1007/11553939_127
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33745315030
SN - 3540288961
SN - 9783540288961
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 898
EP - 907
BT - Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems - 9th International Conference, KES 2005, Proceedings
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 9th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, KES 2005
Y2 - 14 September 2005 through 16 September 2005
ER -