{"id":1461,"date":"2016-10-29T15:46:49","date_gmt":"2016-10-29T19:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/guentherlab\/?page_id=1461"},"modified":"2016-10-29T18:03:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T22:03:36","slug":"ntt-talking-robot","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/guentherlab\/miscellaneous-videos-and-oddities\/ntt-talking-robot\/","title":{"rendered":"NTT Talking Robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These videos illustrate a talking robot developed by NTT Japan circa 2003. The first video shows the vocal folds of the robot, which are made of rubber\u00a0and driven by a piston pushing air through the folds. Actuators move the folds together to produce voicing, then pull them apart for silence.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1461-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"\/guentherlab\/files\/2016\/10\/glottis_open_shut1.m4v?_=1\" \/><a href=\"\/guentherlab\/files\/2016\/10\/glottis_open_shut1.m4v\">\/guentherlab\/files\/2016\/10\/glottis_open_shut1.m4v<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>The second video shows the robot&#8217;s lips (left) and tongue profile (right), also made from special rubber materials, while producing the utterance &#8220;hassei&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1461-2\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"\/guentherlab\/files\/2016\/10\/hassei_HMM_large.m4v?_=2\" \/><a href=\"\/guentherlab\/files\/2016\/10\/hassei_HMM_large.m4v\">\/guentherlab\/files\/2016\/10\/hassei_HMM_large.m4v<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>[Videos courtesy of NTT Laboratories.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These videos illustrate a talking robot developed by NTT Japan circa 2003. The first video shows the vocal folds of the robot, which are made of rubber\u00a0and driven by a piston pushing air through the folds. Actuators move the folds together to produce voicing, then pull them apart for silence. The second video shows the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3849,"featured_media":0,"parent":1408,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/guentherlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/guentherlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/guentherlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/guentherlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3849"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/guentherlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1461"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/guentherlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1492,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/guentherlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1461\/revisions\/1492"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/guentherlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/guentherlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}