Robots talking like humans

This particular aspect of humanoid robots.This is still in its early stages of development. But in Kagawa university in Japan where they have developed a mechanical robot mouth even thought it looks very creepy

The robots mouth and tongue are made from a mixture of silicone rubber. The nose is made out a plaster which gives it similar characteristics to the human nose.the professor who created it professor Swada had this to say  

'' we've given the robot the score for the song Kagome. its already  learned how to make the sound ''ka'' and it'll retrieve that information from its brain. The robots also learned hot to change a sound's pitch by changing the air flow so it will retrieve that data. In other words, it will use the information already in its brain to make sounds, while estimating speech movements based on the score. So all we are giving it is the words and the pitch''

As the video suggests there are still a lot of work that has to occur.But when it sounds like a human and not like the voices that we have today on robots this will usher in a whole new time for communications with robots. 

By Hayden Smith