@inproceedings{90be74ff3f354fe586c4c95d51a32a75,
title = "Speech robot mimicking human articulatory motion",
abstract = "We have developed a mechanical talking robot, Waseda Talker No. 7 Refined II, to study the human speech mechanism. The conventional control method for this robot is based on a concatenation rule of the phoneme-specific articulatory configurations. With this method, the speech mechanism of the robot is much slower than is required for human speech, because the robot requires momentary movement of motors. To resolve this problem, we have developed a control method that mimics human articulatory trajectory data. The human trajectory data for continuous speech was obtained by using an electromagnetic articulography (EMA) system. The EMA data was converted to the robot control parameters by applying inverse kinematics as well as geometric transformation. Experimental results show that the robot can produce continuous speech with human-like speed and smooth movement.",
keywords = "EMA, Speech production, Talking robot",
author = "Kotaro Fukui and Toshihiro Kusano and Yoshikazu Mukaeda and Yuto Suzuki and Atsuo Takanishi and Masaaki Honda",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) 19300063 and Young Scientist (Start-up) 21860078 from MEXT, Japan. The authors would like to",
year = "2010",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010",
publisher = "International Speech Communication Association",
pages = "1021--1024",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010",
}