Tag Archives: speech

The Creepy want to stifle Dissent

H.R.347, if signed, will make dissent illegal.

Announcing Our Engagement

The realm of social psychology includes the study of how individuals connect with each other. So, when it is human-computer connection, then would it be social cybernetics?

Monkey Clutching Gorts

UCSD Machine Perception Lab has created a nursery teacher bot.

Warm Welcome at World Expo

Actroid understands 40,000 phrases each in Chinese, English, Japanese and Korean with facial expressions suitable for the more than 2,000 types of answers.

Better Speech Recognition

A fundamentally different approach for computers to understand human speech.

Robot Helps Police Arrest Murder Suspect

“You have the right to remain silent…” Yahoo! News has an Associated Press story: Robot Helps Police Arrest Murder Suspect. Note: Pictured above is Star Wars’ ‘droid’ R2D2, rather than the robot mentioned in the news story. Patricia Cornwell used such a cybernetic device in one of her novels years ago. In the story (Putnam, [...]

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