Development of a talking robot

Author

Nishikawa, Kazufumi ; Asama, Kouichirou ; Hayashi, Kouki ; Takanobu, Hideaki ; Takanishi, Atsuo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Eng., Waseda Univ., Tokyo, Japan

Volume

3

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

1760

Abstract

The vocal movement isn´t only a movement of the vocal organs. It is also a movement that produces acoustic signals received by hearing as linguistic information through hydroacoustic phenomena along with the formation of the vocal way. The purpose of this research is to make clear human vocal mechanism from the view of engineering by reproducing the vocal movement using a robot, and to make the dynamic model. Therefore, the authors developed an anthropomorphic talking robot, WT-1 (Waseda Talker-No.1). It simulates human voice movement, and has articulators (the 4-DOF lips, 1-DOF teeth, 6-DOF tongue, nasal cavity and 1-DOF soft palate) and the vocal organs (the 1-DOF vocal cords, 1-DOF lungs); Total DOF of the robot is 14

Keywords

robots; software agents; speech intelligibility; speech recognition; WT-1; acoustic signals; anthropomorphic talking robot; articulators; human vocal mechanism; human voice movement; hydroacoustic phenomena; linguistic information; robot; talking robot; vocal movement; vocal organs; Acoustical engineering; Anthropomorphism; Human voice; Lips; Lungs; Natural languages; Robots; Speech; Teeth; Tongue;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2000. (IROS 2000). Proceedings. 2000 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on

Conference_Location

Takamatsu

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6348-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IROS.2000.895226

Filename

895226