Development of a talking robot with vocal cords and lips having human-like biological structures

Kotaro Fukui; Kazufumi Nishikawa; Shunsuke Ikeo; Eiji Shintaku; Kentaro Takada; Hideaki Takanobu; Masaaki Honda; Atsuo Takanishi

doi:10.1109/IROS.2005.1545356

Development of a talking robot with vocal cords and lips having human-like biological structures

Kotaro Fukui^*, Kazufumi Nishikawa, Shunsuke Ikeo, Eiji Shintaku, Kentaro Takada, Hideaki Takanobu, Masaaki Honda, Atsuo Takanishi

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	2023-2028
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	0780389123, 9780780389120
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2005.1545356
Publication status	Published - 2005

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Name	2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS

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Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Human-Computer Interaction
Control and Systems Engineering

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Fukui, K., Nishikawa, K., Ikeo, S., Shintaku, E., Takada, K., Takanobu, H., Honda, M., & Takanishi, A. (2005). Development of a talking robot with vocal cords and lips having human-like biological structures. In 2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS (pp. 2023-2028). [1545356] (2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2005.1545356

Development of a talking robot with vocal cords and lips having human-like biological structures. / Fukui, Kotaro; Nishikawa, Kazufumi; Ikeo, Shunsuke et al.
2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS. IEEE Computer Society, 2005. p. 2023-2028 1545356 (2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Fukui, K, Nishikawa, K, Ikeo, S, Shintaku, E, Takada, K, Takanobu, H, Honda, M & Takanishi, A 2005, Development of a talking robot with vocal cords and lips having human-like biological structures. in 2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS., 1545356, 2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 2023-2028. https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2005.1545356

Fukui K, Nishikawa K, Ikeo S, Shintaku E, Takada K, Takanobu H et al. Development of a talking robot with vocal cords and lips having human-like biological structures. In 2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS. IEEE Computer Society. 2005. p. 2023-2028. 1545356. (2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS). doi: 10.1109/IROS.2005.1545356

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