Thursday, July 14, 2011

Steampunk articulatory synthesis

An article by Rebecca Boyle in POPSCI.com, called "Moaning Mouth-Bot Learns to Croon, Is Even Creepier Than Ever," features the "enhanced" version of a talking mouth created by Hideyuki Sawada of Kagawa University in Japan. Check out its scary vocal skills. Thanks and a hat tip to Robert Remez for pointing out this article to us.

1 comments:

Simon Levy said...

It might be prudent to start notifying emergency rooms about the kinds of injuries they can anticipate once this thing hits the market.

Seriously, the Napoleon helmet is probably to simulate a nasal cavity, but what's with the wagging tail?