Paper Info
Title
Oral mechanism design on face robot for lip-synchronized speech
Abstract
This study aims to realize lip synchronized speech with less actuators installed for robotic mouth motion. Asynchronous lip postures in a robot speech gives most human listeners strongly negative impressions of fakeness, horror and awkwardness. Some misperception might happen while the speech listeners are hearing one voice but seeing another different mouth pattern. A 2-DOF oral mechanism is developed to perform lip synchronization for an android robot with speaking capabilities in this study. Its functional specification is determined through some preliminary investigations. After merging two types of classical mechanism designs, it can generate 6 essential lip postures for speech matching. The realistic effect on lip synchronized speech of this 2-DOF system is close to that of the Multi-DOF ones. The effectiveness of the lip-synchronization of the new simplified oral mechanism has been demonstrated in verification experiments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/ICRA.2013.6631188
ICRA
Keywords
Field
DocType
speech processing,human listeners,robot speech,speech listeners,robotic mouth motion,human-robot interaction,speech matching,natural language interfaces,lip-synchronized speech,lip postures,oral mechanism design,humanoid robots,face robot,asynchronous lip postures,actuators,2-dof oral mechanism,human robot interaction,robot kinematics,face,synchronization,speech
Asynchronous communication,Speech processing,Synchronization,Android (robot),Speech recognition,Mechanism design,Engineering,Robot,Human–robot interaction,Humanoid robot
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2013
1
1050-4729
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4673-5641-1
2
0.37
References 
Authors
3
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chyi-Yeu Lin17114.95
Li-Chieh Cheng2152.24
Lien-Chieh Shen320.37