Michael C. Brady - VoxHead

• Here is its new arm with binocular vision for shared attention and interaction studies



• Here is a picture of the new vocal tract system (mounted on the end of a microphone stand for now). Motors actuate the tract remotely through bicycle brake cables so that noise from motors can eventually be isolated.



• A quick demo of the new pneumatic sound source - manually controlled air pressure in this example.



• The new system has 5 degrees of freedom controlling vocal tract shape, plus two more for lip rounding and nasalization.



• Here is a quick video of the new system cycling between three vowels



• An older video from Human Robot Interaction (HRI) in Amsterdam - March, 2008

Here is a paper that introduces the control architecture.

And here is a web page in development that walks through the control architecture