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Robot's Play
The Miami Herald has a great article about teaching robots to speak -- Beyond Child's Play: Robots Learn to Speak. It looks into the tough process of learning a language, as underlined by a robotics expert: ""Imagine you are in a foreign country and don't know the language. You can't even tell where a word begins and ends, much less the meaning of the word."" Efforts to reprogram simple robots to learn from visual stimuli is also discussed, and though only simple vocabulary is used, it seems a good base to build upon. |
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Happy talking
This is very much the same sort of thing that I'm doing with Rodney, although the conversation revolves around only a very limited number of objects. The difficulty isn't in holding a conversation, since speech recognition these days is quite good. The main problems are in having the robot reliably visually identify the objects such as "ball" under normal conditions. It may be possible to recognise objects under unrealistic conditions where lighting is constant and the objects themselves have easily identifiable primary colours, but personally I would regard this as cheating. - Bob |
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Selecting Features
So finding what key elements of the image discriminate that object from the others is the challenge. Once again, feature selection... I see a theme recurring here ;) Another similar article on the topic from Bay Area, Scientists Give Language Lessons to Robots. |
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