Abstract
We developed a new talking robot, WT-5 (Waseda Talker No. 5), having novel vocal cords, based on human biological structures. The vocal cords were made from the thermoplastic rubber "Septon", available from Kuraray Co. Ltd. Septon has a similar elasticity to human tissue. The vocal cord model to have a structure similar to the biological structure of the human vocal cords was made. The vocal cords were vibrated like those of a human. This made clean the robot's vowels. With these new mechanisms, the robot could reproduce the human speech in a more biological view and could produce voices nearer to those of a human. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.
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Fukui, K., Nishikawa, K., Ikeo, S., Shintaku, E., Takada, K., Takanobu, H., … Takanishi, A. (2005). Development of a new vocal cords based on human biological structures for talking robot. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 3683 LNAI, pp. 908–914). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/11553939_128
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