TY - GEN
T1 - Intoning Speech Performance of the Talking Robot for Vietnamese Language Case
AU - Nhu, Thanh Vo
AU - Sawada, Hideyuki
PY - 2018/12
Y1 - 2018/12
N2 - The authors are developing a talking robot based on the physical model of human vocal organs in order to reproduce human speech mechanically. Humans use speech in daily communication, and each different country has a different language. The complex movements of vocal organs generate different vocal sounds. This study focuses on the performance of the talking robot to reproduce Vietnamese language, which is a tonal language and contains many unvoiced sounds and fricative sounds. The mechanical system of the talking robot is modified by adding an unvoiced sound source for fricative sound generation and a new flexible vocal cords. The control of the artificial vocal cords is adjusted to give the tonal effect. The robot is programmed to speak several Vietnamese phrases, and the output speech is evaluated by questionars.
AB - The authors are developing a talking robot based on the physical model of human vocal organs in order to reproduce human speech mechanically. Humans use speech in daily communication, and each different country has a different language. The complex movements of vocal organs generate different vocal sounds. This study focuses on the performance of the talking robot to reproduce Vietnamese language, which is a tonal language and contains many unvoiced sounds and fricative sounds. The mechanical system of the talking robot is modified by adding an unvoiced sound source for fricative sound generation and a new flexible vocal cords. The control of the artificial vocal cords is adjusted to give the tonal effect. The robot is programmed to speak several Vietnamese phrases, and the output speech is evaluated by questionars.
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U2 - 10.1109/MHS.2018.8886911
DO - 10.1109/MHS.2018.8886911
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85074968618
T3 - MHS 2018 - 2018 29th International Symposium on Micro-NanoMechatronics and Human Science
BT - MHS 2018 - 2018 29th International Symposium on Micro-NanoMechatronics and Human Science
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 29th International Symposium on Micro-NanoMechatronics and Human Science, MHS 2018
Y2 - 10 December 2018 through 12 December 2018
ER -