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Robot Mouth Simulates the Human Voice

Posted April 20, 2010 8:32 AM

From Neatorama:

Engineers at Kagawa University in Japan are developing a talking robotic version of the human mouth: To enable the robot's speaking abilities, engineers at Japan's Kagawa University used an air pump, artificial vocal chords, a resonance tube, a nasal cavity, and a microphone attached to a sound analyzer as substitutes for human vocal organs.

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04/21/2010 12:03 AM

sounds more like a young calf or goat to me. hardly human. but its a start.
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04/26/2010 3:34 PM

I think It's asking for more $$$$ to finance music lessons.
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