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I fixed it for you...]]>Jun 17th 2009 3:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-japanese-robot-reads-aloud-from-books-whispers-vague-thr/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-japanese-robot-reads-aloud-from-books-whispers-vague-thr/
Because they haven't created a mobile suit Gundam yet. (it's not robot since there is no A.I.)]]>Jun 17th 2009 9:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-japanese-robot-reads-aloud-from-books-whispers-vague-thr/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-japanese-robot-reads-aloud-from-books-whispers-vague-thr/]]>Jun 17th 2009 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-japanese-robot-reads-aloud-from-books-whispers-vague-thr/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-japanese-robot-reads-aloud-from-books-whispers-vague-thr/Jun 17th 2009 4:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-japanese-robot-reads-aloud-from-books-whispers-vague-thr/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-japanese-robot-reads-aloud-from-books-whispers-vague-thr/
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=1169267

So isn't this a scanner with an OS that runs the synthesizer and OCR software?

Impressive nonetheless though, Japanese text must be very difficult to synthesize due to the multiple readings for Kanji.]]>Jun 17th 2009 3:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-japanese-robot-reads-aloud-from-books-whispers-vague-thr/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-japanese-robot-reads-aloud-from-books-whispers-vague-thr/Jun 17th 2009 3:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-japanese-robot-reads-aloud-from-books-whispers-vague-thr/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-japanese-robot-reads-aloud-from-books-whispers-vague-thr/Jun 17th 2009 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-japanese-robot-reads-aloud-from-books-whispers-vague-thr/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-japanese-robot-reads-aloud-from-books-whispers-vague-thr/Jun 17th 2009 4:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-japanese-robot-reads-aloud-from-books-whispers-vague-thr/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-japanese-robot-reads-aloud-from-books-whispers-vague-thr/Jun 17th 2009 4:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-japanese-robot-reads-aloud-from-books-whispers-vague-thr/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-japanese-robot-reads-aloud-from-books-whispers-vague-thr/Jun 17th 2009 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-japanese-robot-reads-aloud-from-books-whispers-vague-thr/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-japanese-robot-reads-aloud-from-books-whispers-vague-thr/Jun 17th 2009 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-japanese-robot-reads-aloud-from-books-whispers-vague-thr/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-japanese-robot-reads-aloud-from-books-whispers-vague-thr/
+1 for contortionist-in-a-box.]]>Jun 17th 2009 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-japanese-robot-reads-aloud-from-books-whispers-vague-thr/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-japanese-robot-reads-aloud-from-books-whispers-vague-thr/Jun 17th 2009 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-japanese-robot-reads-aloud-from-books-whispers-vague-thr/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-japanese-robot-reads-aloud-from-books-whispers-vague-thr/Jun 17th 2009 4:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-japanese-robot-reads-aloud-from-books-whispers-vague-thr/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-japanese-robot-reads-aloud-from-books-whispers-vague-thr/
OCR + voice synthesis.]]>Jun 17th 2009 4:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-japanese-robot-reads-aloud-from-books-whispers-vague-thr/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-japanese-robot-reads-aloud-from-books-whispers-vague-thr/Jun 17th 2009 5:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-japanese-robot-reads-aloud-from-books-whispers-vague-thr/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-japanese-robot-reads-aloud-from-books-whispers-vague-thr/Jun 17th 2009 5:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-japanese-robot-reads-aloud-from-books-whispers-vague-thr/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-japanese-robot-reads-aloud-from-books-whispers-vague-thr/]]>Jun 17th 2009 5:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-japanese-robot-reads-aloud-from-books-whispers-vague-thr/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-japanese-robot-reads-aloud-from-books-whispers-vague-thr/Jun 18th 2009 9:31AM