Talking Robot Mouth Mimics Human Speech.

[5COPY]

I find this to be extremely accurate to the modern humans way of communicating.

The publics reaction to it were the following:

"I am overcome with this great and wondrous feeling! Science, advancing us to that brave new world! This new creation, The astounding things it paves the way for! The foremost of practical applications that springs to mind is me putting my dick in it."


No, but really what the actual fuck man. And yes this thing is for real and it's a super early prototype for trying to create realistic human speech for robots. Actually it's about 2 years old now and they probably got a lot futher with it. But I still can't help but find this funny lol.

[prettiestPony]

Good grimy gravy, that's terrifying. And awesome.

[Navron]

I'm going to have nightmares now.

[Trillionage]

I find this to be extremely accurate to the modern humans way of communicating.

The publics reaction to it were the following:

"I am overcome with this great and wondrous feeling! Science, advancing us to that brave new world! This new creation, The astounding things it paves the way for! The foremost of practical applications that springs to mind is me putting my dick in it."


No, but really what the actual fuck man. And yes this thing is for real and it's a super early prototype for trying to create realistic human speech for robots. Actually it's about 2 years old now and they probably got a lot futher with it. But I still can't help but find this funny lol.

I've already seen it before at least in two different places...but i still can not unsee the fact that it looks like a fleshlight with a nose.

[Icky]

Things always start out very basic and simplistic, this might actually turn into something really advanced one day.

[CommandSpry]

Icky cmon, who needs more advanced things

[K3WRO]

You'll never know what Japan can think of next...

[Ed Viper]

Okay, really, why did they give it a nose? Was that truly necessary?

[ph00tbag]

It seems to lack any way of closing the velum, so you can't tell [e] from [i] or [u] from [o]. I have to parrot EmpUbermensch. Why did they give it a nose if they aren't even trying to distinguish nasal from oral?

Not to mention they still haven't gotten consonant articulation down yet. Theoretically, they should be able to do it with that kind of apparatus, too.

Frankly, I'm unimpressed. Peter Ladefoged was doing this in the eighties.

[Captain Ironhelm]

they should put this thing in a haunted house, scare the daylights out of everyone.