Creating a Voice for MiRo, the World's First Commercial Biomimetic Robot
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This paper introduces MiRo the world’s first commercial biomimetic robot and describes how its vocal system was designed using a real-time parametric general-purpose mammalian vocal synthesiser tailored to the specific physical characteristics of the robot. MiRo’s capabilities will be demonstrated live during the hands-on interactive ‘Show & Tell’ session at INTERSPEECH-2017.
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