A study on communication robot performing rhythmic conversation

我们完善了语言和副语言信息的生成/识别方法，并实现了一个可以与一群人进行对话的通信机器人。机器人被用来刺激人与人之间的对话活动。为此，我们设计了一种机器人外观，以表达对话所需的字符并执行副语言信息表达功能。我们设计了适合每一种对话情景和对话程序的行为，以使其具有吸引力。我们还改进了用于对话的语音识别/合成方法。

We sophisticated generation/recognition methods of linguistic and paralinguistic information and achieved a communication robot which can make conversation with a group of people. The robot was used to stimulate activity of the human to human conversation. For this purpose, we designed a robot appearance to express desired character for conversation and to perform paralinguistic information expression functions. We designed behaviors to suit for each conversational situation and conversational procedure to make it attractive. We also improved speech recognition/synthesis methods for conversation.