It's not pretty, but this anthropomorphic bot developed at Waseda University in the Takanishi lab can talk -- well, produce some vowels anyway. Have a look here.
It looks like something that was chasing Mrs. Peel in an episode of the Avengers. If it makes human-like vowel sounds, I guess it shows one thing: it isn't that simple to model speech production.
Greg Hickok is Professor of Cognitive Sciences, and Director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at UC Irvine. DavidPoeppel, after several years as Professor of Linguistics and Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park, is now Professor of Psychology at NYU. Hickok and Poeppel first crossed paths in 1991 at MIT in the McDonnell-Pew Center for Cognitive Neuroscience where Hickok was a post doc, and Poeppel a grad student. Meeting up again a few years later at a Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting in San Francisco, they began a collaboration aimed at developing an integrated model of the functional anatomy of language. Research in both the Hickok and Poeppel labs is supported by NIDCD.
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It looks like something that was chasing Mrs. Peel in an episode of the Avengers. If it makes human-like vowel sounds, I guess it shows one thing: it isn't that simple to model speech production.
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