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Development of a New Vocal Cords Based on Human Biological Structures for Talking Robot

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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.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Ookubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 169-8555, Japan

    Kotaro Fukui, Kazufumi Nishikawa, Shunsuke Ikeo, Eiji Shintaku, Kentaro Takada & Atsuo Takanishi

  2. Humanoid Robotics Institute, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Ookubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 169-8555, Japan

    Hideaki Takanobu & Atsuo Takanishi

  3. Advanced Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Ookubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 169-8555, Japan

    Atsuo Takanishi

  4. Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Kogakuin University, Tokyo, Japan

    Hideaki Takanobu

  5. School of Sport Sciences, Waseda University, Saitama, Japan

    Masaaki Honda

  6. Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science,  

    Kazufumi Nishikawa

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  1. School of Business, La Trobe University, 3086, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Rajiv Khosla

  2. Centre for SMART systems Engineering Research Centre, University of Brighton, BN2 4GJ, Moulsecoomb, Brighton, UK

    Robert J. Howlett

  3. School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Knowledge Based Intelligent Engineering Systems Centre, University of South Australia, 5095, Mawson Lakes, SA, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Fukui, K. et al. (2005). Development of a New Vocal Cords Based on Human Biological Structures for Talking Robot. In: Khosla, R., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3683. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11553939_128

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