From babbling towards first words: The emergence of speech in a robot in real-time interaction

A. Rothwell; C. Lyon; C.L. Nehaniv; J. Saunders

doi:10.1109/ALIFE.2011.5954641

From babbling towards first words: The emergence of speech in a robot in real-time interaction

A. Rothwell, C. Lyon, C.L. Nehaniv, J. Saunders

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Abstract

This paper describes a system that simulates word form acquisition without meaning as a preliminary stage in language acquisition, through interaction with a human teacher. The system extracts phonemes from the teacher's speech and supplies them to a linguistically enabled synthetic agent. The agent babbles initially but gradually, words begin to emerge as the agent biases its babble towards the speech of the teacher. Experiments are conducted in real-time with a human teacher interacting with the agent embodied in the iCub humanoid robot.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	IEEE SSCI 2011 - Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence - IEEE ALIFE 2011: 2011 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages	86-91
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	978-161284063-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ALIFE.2011.5954641
Publication status	Published - 2011
Event	IEEE ALIFE 2011 - Paris, France Duration: 11 Apr 2011 → 15 Apr 2011

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Conference	IEEE ALIFE 2011
Country/Territory	France
City	Paris
Period	11/04/11 → 15/04/11

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Rothwell, A., Lyon, C., Nehaniv, C. L., & Saunders, J. (2011). From babbling towards first words: The emergence of speech in a robot in real-time interaction. In IEEE SSCI 2011 - Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence - IEEE ALIFE 2011: 2011 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (pp. 86-91). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). https://doi.org/10.1109/ALIFE.2011.5954641

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Rothwell, A, Lyon, C, Nehaniv, CL & Saunders, J 2011, From babbling towards first words: The emergence of speech in a robot in real-time interaction. in IEEE SSCI 2011 - Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence - IEEE ALIFE 2011: 2011 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 86-91, IEEE ALIFE 2011, Paris, France, 11/04/11. https://doi.org/10.1109/ALIFE.2011.5954641

From babbling towards first words: The emergence of speech in a robot in real-time interaction. / Rothwell, A.; Lyon, C.; Nehaniv, C.L. et al.
IEEE SSCI 2011 - Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence - IEEE ALIFE 2011: 2011 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011. p. 86-91.

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Rothwell A, Lyon C, Nehaniv CL, Saunders J. From babbling towards first words: The emergence of speech in a robot in real-time interaction. In IEEE SSCI 2011 - Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence - IEEE ALIFE 2011: 2011 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). 2011. p. 86-91 doi: 10.1109/ALIFE.2011.5954641

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