Development of a new human-like talking robot for human vocal mimicry

Kotaro Fukui; Kazufumi Nishikawa; Toshiharu Kuwae; Hideaki Takanobu; Takemi Mochida; Masaaki Honda; Atsuo Takanishi

doi:10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570317

Development of a new human-like talking robot for human vocal mimicry

Kotaro Fukui^*, Kazufumi Nishikawa, Toshiharu Kuwae, Hideaki Takanobu, Takemi Mochida, Masaaki Honda, Atsuo Takanishi

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This paper describes development of a new human-like talking robot WT-4 (Waseda Talker No. 4). WT-4 was developed to overcome the problems related to the lack of variation in the formant frequency of the sounds generated by the previous talking robot WT-3. These problems arose particularly on the first formant (Fl) where frequencies of less than 500 [Hz] could not be reached. And the differences among WT-3's vowels were not clear; which may have been caused by the sound source of the vocal cords and the lips. Therefore, the connection between the vocal cords and the vocal tract was improved, as well as the lips mechanism. As the result of these improvements, WT-4's sounds were quite similar to a human's, and WT-4 was able to reproduce suitable sounds using auditory feedback.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
Pages	1437-1442
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570317
Publication status	Published - 2005 Dec 1
Event	2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation - Barcelona, Spain Duration: 2005 Apr 18 → 2005 Apr 22

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Name	Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
Volume	2005
ISSN (Print)	1050-4729

Conference

Conference	2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Barcelona
Period	05/4/18 → 05/4/22

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Software
Control and Systems Engineering
Artificial Intelligence
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Fukui, K., Nishikawa, K., Kuwae, T., Takanobu, H., Mochida, T., Honda, M., & Takanishi, A. (2005). Development of a new human-like talking robot for human vocal mimicry. In Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (pp. 1437-1442). [1570317] (Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation; Vol. 2005). https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570317

Development of a new human-like talking robot for human vocal mimicry. / Fukui, Kotaro; Nishikawa, Kazufumi; Kuwae, Toshiharu et al.
Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2005. p. 1437-1442 1570317 (Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation; Vol. 2005).

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Fukui, K, Nishikawa, K, Kuwae, T, Takanobu, H, Mochida, T, Honda, M & Takanishi, A 2005, Development of a new human-like talking robot for human vocal mimicry. in Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation., 1570317, Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, vol. 2005, pp. 1437-1442, 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Barcelona, Spain, 05/4/18. https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570317

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