Now we find these mimic-human-vocalization freakazoids:
From Improbable Research:
There are now several well-established ways to create artificial voices – some take a purely electronic approach, while others, like Professor Hideyuki Sawada at Kagawa University, Japan, have explored electro-mechanical methods. The video above shows how pneumatically-driven artificial lips, tongues, voicebox and nasal resonating cavities might simulate speech. Unfortunately, the videos linked-to via the professor’s website are now’404 not-found’ (missing) – but fortunately we can view more Japanese pneumatic voice synthesis progress at other Japanese research websites, like that of Professor Atsuo Takanishi at Waseda University....MORE
Robots speech – Japanese pneumatic style
