So we had a choice: either we let scientists at the University of Sheffield attach electrodes to our
tongues, or they were going to go and build their own artificial mouth. Because we're not so into the whole electrode thing, they built "Anton," an animatronic tongue made of soft silicone to help them understand speech and subsequently improve speech-recognition software. This
isn't the first of its kind, believe it or not -- there's much competition in the robotic mouth world. Because speech recognition systems aren't really benefiting from simply crowding them full of recorded speech, researchers want to better understand how the mouth produces sound and then create algorithms that can simply recognize speech patterns rather than try to match recordings to recordings. Sounds about right to us. Peep the creepy video after the break.
posted Jul 30th 2008 6:20AM
David, soon you'll be born and start your path to the Blue Fairy.
Robotic blowjobs.
Sounds like this droid got too little attention from its makers.
it needs to be quicker thou.
why not start at the mouth first? read speech like how deaf read other peoples speech, mouth reading.
hahahah Yess my home town of Sheffield :)
YAY! I went to the University of Sheffield.
I also interviewed for a PhD place in this research group, so I might have ended up working on this project if hadn't decided to get a crappy job instead! :(
@Zut
Employer: "So do you want the sweet job or the crappy one?"
Zut: "Crappy, please!"
Um.. good choice there with the crappy job I guess.
yes go sheffield i live there
This is one more step closer to full cyborg body.
I thank u for further information that u will give to me
Robotic tongue is in ur mouth impeding ur speech. No but seriously, could you imagine having a robotic tongue and it malfunctioning? You wouldn't be able to tell anyone that your tongue is trying to kill you! Well played robotic tongue, well played
My wife will take two, please.
Why? Because you fail at bedroom?
Nice grasp of the language there. You should have bigger concerns.
Two of these, face to face (or rather chin to chin) would make the ultimate sex toy for women. :-)
I think I'll go patent this now..
One step closer to a real Heavy Metal 2000 sex-bot
Now the robots that will take over humans will now know how human flesh taste like....
Does it have...Bluetooth?
Now I can actually make out with my Marilyn Monrobot.
Anton?