Music offers a uniquely abstract way for the expression of human emotions and moods,
wherein melodic harmony is achieved through a succinct blend of pitch, rhythm, tempo …

Our goal is to develop a coplayer music robot capable of presenting a musical expression
together with humans. Although many instrument-performing robots exist, they may have …

We aim at developing a singer robot capable of listening to music with its own¿ ears¿ and
interacting with a human's musical performance. Such a singer robot requires at least three …

The speech enhancement architecture presented in this paper is specifically developed for
hands-free robot spoken dialog systems. It is designed to take advantage of additional …

In conversational dialogue systems, users prefer to speak at any time and to use natural
expressions. We have developed an Independent Component Analysis (ICA) based semi …

Our goal is to achieve a musical ensemble among a robot and human musicians where the
robot listens to the music with its own microphones. The main issues are (1) robust beat …

Our goal is to develop an interactive music robot, ie, a robot that presents a musical
expression together with humans. A music interaction requires two important functions …

Based on inspirations from infant development we present a system which learns
associations between acoustic labels and visual representations in interaction with its tutor …

This paper describes a semi-blind speech enhancement method using a semi-blind
recurrent neural network (SB-RNN) for human-robot speech interaction. When a robot …

In our barge-in-able spoken dialogue system, the user's behaviors such as barge-in timing
and utterance expressions vary according to his/her characteristics and situations. The …