Case Study: HRP-2

Hearing is another important factor for the teaching assistant, which is further complicated taking into account children voices and possibly a noisy environment.

Research has found a Japanese robot called HRP-2 that can understand human speech using a number of microphones placed in the robots head. Furthermore, sophisticated speech recognition software is implemented to offer a high degree of functionality.

This robot demonstrates that the technology for advanced speech recognition is to some degree developed.


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