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WT-6 talking robot
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Tokyo, Japan (LiveScience): The WT-6 talking robot is the creation of Atsuo Takanishi and his Ph.D. student Kotaro Fukui at Waseda University in Tokyo. Takanishi and his group used mechanical actuators and a variety of materials to re-create the entire human vocal system. The vocal cavity, tongue, vocal chords, lips, teeth, soft palate and lungs were modeled from soft plastics and polymers. According to listeners, the result is "clear, natural speech" - in Japanese, of course.
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www.livescience.com/scienceoffiction/060824_talking_robot.html
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