ApriAlpha V3 - sharp ear robot - and the omni-directional auditory process

Author

Koga, Toshiyuki ; Suzuki, Kaoru ; Hirokawa, Junko ; Ogawa, Hideki ; Matsuhira, Nobuto

Author_Institution

Corporate Res. & Dev. Center, TOSHIBA Corp.

fYear

2006

Firstpage

2110

Lastpage

2115

Abstract

Home robots will help us household works in the living environment. The robots need to listen to user´s order and communicate with him/her. For the interaction between the user and the robot, we developed the omni-directional auditory process. This process allows the robot recognize the direction of the sound source of user´s voice - that is the direction of user. It extracts the sound stream of user´s speech, and recognizes the contents of the speech. We implemented this process into ApriAlpha^trade V3 - sharp ear robot, and exhibited in Aichi Expo 2005. This paper describes the summary of ApriAlpha^trade V3 and the omni-directional auditory process - the estimation of the voice direction with the function and the experimentation of the process

Keywords

feature extraction; intelligent robots; man-machine systems; speech recognition; home robot; omni-directional auditory process; sharp ear robot; sound stream extraction; user speech; voice direction estimation; Acoustic noise; Data mining; Ear; Microphone arrays; Microwave integrated circuits; Prototypes; Service robots; Speech processing; Speech recognition; Working environment noise; Hough Transform; Omni-directional auditory process; Robot;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

SICE-ICASE, 2006. International Joint Conference

Conference_Location

Busan

Print_ISBN

89-950038-4-7

Electronic_ISBN

89-950038-5-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SICE.2006.315561

Filename

4109036