Robot uses speech recognition to understand spoken requests and give replies</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Robot uses speech recognition to understand spoken requests and give replies"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Robot,uses,speech,recognition,to,understand,spoken,requests,and,give,replies"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">18-07-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Robot uses speech recognition to understand spoken requests and give replies</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/img_news/img_WRPUZcRcmFCxqgtDdtLL_0.jpg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" ><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">London, UK (EE Times): Philips has followed in the path of numerous Japanese electronics companies and started investigating the possibility of robotic companions as consumer electronic products. Philips Research has been demonstrating the "iCat"; a prototype user-interface to consumer electronics in the shape of a yellow plastic cat. <br>The iCat employs speech recognition, computer vision, robotics and animatronics in order to manifest a personality, Philips said. It understands spoken requests, gives replies, recognizes faces and everyday objects and nods, and makes facial expressions and other head movements. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://newsletter.eetimes.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/hpEN0HKdUk0FrK0DXiE0Ew " target="blank">newsletter.eetimes.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/hpEN0HKdUk0FrK0DXiE0Ew </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show