Towards new human-humanoid communication: Listening during speaking by using ultrasonic directional speaker

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 1483-1488

  Nakadai, Kazuhiro ^a   Tsujino, Hiroshi ^a  

^a HONDA RESEARCH INSTITUTE JAPAN CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Automatic gain control and robot audition; Automatic speech recognition; Directional speaker; Human humanoid communication

Indexed keywords

GAIN CONTROL; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; DIRECTIONAL SPEAKER; HUMAN HUMANOID COMMUNICATION; ULTRASONIC SOUND BEAMS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33846169768     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570324     Document Type: Conference Paper

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