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Anton the robotic tongue has saved you from electrode doom
2008-07-30 06:20:00 by Joshua Fruhlinger in Engadget
 

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Anton animatronic tongue
So we had a choice: either we let scientists at the University of Sheffield attach electrodes to our tongues, or they were going to go and build their own artificial mouth. Because we're not so into the whole electrode thing, they built "Anton," an animatronic tongue made of soft silicone to help them understand speech and subsequently improve speech-recognition software. This isn't the first of its kind, believe it or not -- there's much competition in the robotic mouth world. Because speech recognition systems aren't really benefitting from simply crowding them full of recorded speech, researchers want to better understand how the mouth produces sound and then create algorythms that can simply recognize speech patterns rather than try to match recordings to recordings. Sounds about right to us. Peep the creepy video after the break.

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Tags: speech, speech recognition systems, electrode, electrode doom, speech patterns, anton, robotic tongue, match recordings, mouth produces sound
 
 
 
 
 
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