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Our research group at Nagoya Institute of Technology is developing “MMDAgent” as a voice interaction toolkit. Using MMDAgent, system developers can create various speech dialogue contents. When developers create voice interaction contents, it is important to consider user needs. Therefore, an approach is necessary to elicit preference information of the user. In this paper, we propose a method to...
Since 2011, we have developed and deployed a standalone Voice-Interactive Digital Signage System to provide useful university information to users at the Nagoya Institute of Technology. This system comprises MMDAgent, a software toolkit to realize voice interaction with 3-D character named "Mei". An important shortcoming is that this system's ability is limited because it lacks a network...
In recent years, speech dialogue systems have de-veloped remarkably. This university has developed and publishedthe "MMDAgent" voice interaction system toolkit as open source software. MMDAgent uses "Julius" and "HTS" for speech recognition and speech synthesis. Its expressive agent comprises these combined with 3-D CG rendering module. As an example of MMD Agent application,...
Market demand of IC package for communication is increasing along with the popularization of mobile type of information and communication devices. Wafer Level Chip Scale Package (WLCSP) is popular method for above mentioned devices from production cost point of view and is widely used for this kind of mobile devices. There are two requirements for the WLCSP nowadays. One is a cost reduction, the other...
This university has published the "MMDAgent" voice interaction system toolkit as opensource software. MMDAgent enables users to develop voice interaction system easily by editing the voice interaction scenario based on Finite State Transducer (FST) format. For increase agent's vocabulary, it is important to describe a lot of voice interaction scenario. Until now, voice interaction scenario...
MMDAgent has been proposed as a voice dialogue system capable of voice interaction in real time with 3D character. In order to improve the convenience by enlarging the operating environment, the "Smart Meichan" has been proposed transplanted with MMDAgent on Android smartphone. In the scenario definition method of this toolkit, it is difficult to create complex interactive scenarios. In...
This university has published the "MMDAgent" voice interaction system toolkit as open source software. Voice Interaction Agent, produced using MMDAgent, is active in various scenarios and provides voice interaction capability. Voice interaction agents produced using MMDAgent talk to people by loading a script file that describes a voice interaction scenario. To increase the agent's vocabulary,...
As described herein, we propose a system to hold an open-campus event with a spoken dialogue toolkit that runs on smartphones. This method can reduce printing costs by displaying a browser with information that would otherwise be published in the brochure. Furthermore, by guiding the course with GPS, Google Maps, and walking-path estimation system, guide person is no longer necessary. Furthermore,...
Voice navigation systems have recently become virtually ubiquitous. However, current systems are not always easy for pedestrians to utilize because users invariably have to look at the maps on their mobile devices while walking. This paper proposes a mobile voice navigation system that utilizes user-based mobile map annotations and generates navigation sentences automatically based on guide annotations...
Most educational institutions nowadays digitally manage their students' data, which are maintained on servers on campus. We intend to use these data in order to provide academic guidance. Thus, in this study, we forecast students' future academic records using smart card based time recording data and grade data. We use a Bayesian network as our forecasting method. We accordingly revised the data and...
We have developed a telephone operator system using a spoken dialogue system. The system can be used for video calls, with Microsoft Lync used as the VoIP client. The spoken dialogue system is used in the system to display a 3D character, and to interact with the user over the video call. In this study, the interactive scenario for the telephone operator is automatically generated from a university...
This university has published the “MMDAgent” voice interaction system toolkit as opensource software. MMDAgent enables users to develop voice interaction system easily by editing the voice interaction scenario based on Finite State Transducer (FST) format. However, having numerous people edit it simultaneously is difficult. For that reason, tremendous labor costs are necessary to describe an abundant...
Agent systems have been designed and deployed using recent agent technologies. However, design and deployment of these systems remain as difficult tasks of developers because agents have situational and nondeterministic characteristics and because any useful design and deployment support facilities have not been provided for developers. To raise the efficiency of the agent system design and deployment...
Energy of mechanical vibration is not used effectively. The linear generator is considered to generate electrical energy from various mechanical vibrations. This experimental device consists of a mechanical vibration generation part and a linear generation one. Various vibrations are measured and reproduced in the vibration generation part. And this mechanical vibration generator is connected to the...
The role of the communication robot is increasing for the aging society with declining birthrate especially in Japan. Thus, field trails are very important to confirm the fundamental function of the robot and to know the comments from the person who joined the verification experiment. Here, we extended the greeting function to the interface robot ApriPocoTM considering the position and velocity of...
The voice interface is a big role in the human robot interaction. However, there are problems; imperfectness, deterioration from unknown words, and so on. In order to compensate imperfectness, the proposed robot behaves familiarly like an infant. For the unknown words, the robot learns user-defined voice instructions by the remote controller trigger. The experimental results show that the proposed...
Wireless power transfer is expected in the use of an electric vehicle and a chip card. However, it requires a high efficiency and takes a long distance. In this paper, we propose the use of a magnetoplated wire (MPW), which is a copper wire (COW) whose circumference is plated with a magnetic thin film to improve transmission efficiency. The MPW can reduce resistances due to the proximity effect comparison...
In order to show both a detailed map (Focus) and a wide-area map (Context) in one map, we have proposed the Focus+Glue+Context map, a type of fisheye view for mobile maps. A problem in the Focus+Glue+Context map is that if the radius of the Focus is large, the Context area is very narrow, and if the radius of the Focus is small, we cannot show the entire target area. To solve this problem, we have...
The EU, South Korea and Japan have a pressing need to compensate for growing labor shortages in their aging societies. There is growing awareness that robotic technology has the potential to ameliorate this problem in terms of both physical and mental labor. To take an example of mental labor, a human therapist dealing with elderly people must be an active listener. In order to realize a robot capable...
Currently, miniature surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices (filters and duplexers) with a good temperature stability are strongly required. In order to realize its requirement, various SAW substrates combining a high density metal electrode, a SiO2 film, and LiTaO3 or LiNbO3 substrate were researched. Their combinations offer excellent properties such as large electrode reflection coefficient, large...
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