Realization of consonant sounds and continuous sounds using a talking robot

Kazufumi Nishikawa; Akihiro Imai; Takayuki Ogawara; Hideaki Takanobu; Takemi Mochida; Atsuo Takanishi

doi:10.1299/kikaic.68.3361

Realization of consonant sounds and continuous sounds using a talking robot

Kazufumi Nishikawa^*, Akihiro Imai, Takayuki Ogawara, Hideaki Takanobu, Takemi Mochida, Atsuo Takanishi

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This paper describes the mechanical design and the speech planning of an anthropomorphic talking robot WT-1R (Waseda Talker-No. 1 Refined) for the production of consonant sounds. In 2000, we mechanically produced Japanese vowels (/a/, /i/, /u/, /e/, /o/) using a first robot WT-1 (Waseda Talker-No. 1). In 2001, we developed a second robot WT-IR, which was improvement over WT-I's mechanisms for producing natural vowels and consonant sounds. WT-1R has articulators (the tongue, lips, teeth, nasal cavity and soft palate) and vocal organs (the lungs and vocal cords). The total DOF (degrees of freedom) is 15. Furthermore, we proposed the speech planning of WT-1R by considering the Complicated phenomena of consonant sound as three parts (steady consonant sound, transient consonant sound and vowel). WT-1R could mechanically produce Japanese vowels (/a/, /i/, /u/, /e/, /o/), some consonant sounds (/s/, /h/, /m/, /p/) and continuous sound/waseda/.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3361-3366
Number of pages	6
Journal	Nippon Kikai Gakkai Ronbunshu, C Hen/Transactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Part C
Volume	68
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1299/kikaic.68.3361
Publication status	Published - 2002 Nov
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Humanoid Robot
Speech Production
Vocal Movement
Voice

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Mechanics of Materials
Mechanical Engineering
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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