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famed speech-head says scientists will be able to back up memories

By Kathleen Savino on October 26, 2010

Ray Kurzweil, famous for his work on speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, amongst other speech-related things (and other non-speech things as well), announced at the ‘Future Talk’ even in Vienna, Austria, that within twenty years scientists will be able to back up memories using nanobots.

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who needs a preacher when you have a robot?

By Kathleen Savino on May 25, 2010

Seriously, who can get enough of robots? It wasn’t hard to find a strange robot story for you, my dear speech-heads. Just mere days ago, an I-Fairy robot wed a couple in Tokyo.

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Creepy Talking Robots: Hitting Rock Bottom

By Adam B. on February 23, 2010

Hey Speech-Heads, It’s no secret that my Speech Brother Eric B. and I love Creepy Talking Robots.  Just the other day, we were sitting around the old campfire, shelling peanuts and talking about all the Creepy Talking Robots we’ve profiled over the years: strange, vaguely sexual gynoids with feathered blond hair and trampy speech recognition [...]

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Creepy Talking Robots Around The World

By Adam B. on October 22, 2009

Hey Speech-Heads: Check out this brand new Creepy Talking Robot (CTR):  Ibn Sina, the world’s first Arabic conversational humanoid robot. This CTR comes at you via Acapela Group and the Interactive Robots and Media Lab at United Arab Emirates University. Check out this link for more information.  And check out this and this for samples [...]

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Creepy Talking Reader Mailbag

By Adam B. on October 15, 2009 | 1 Response

Hey Speech-Heads: It’s like my Speech Brother Eric B. always says: “Anyone can make an IVR, but only a Speech Mastermind can give the people what they want: a Creepy Talking Robot.” Check out this link–sent to Speech Tech Blog by a Reader/Creepy Talking Robot (CTR) Fan. Unfortunately, we have yet to ascertain what is [...]

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Creepy Talking Robot Nurses

By Adam B. on September 24, 2009

Oh Sweet Mother of Speech! My Speech Brother Eric B. just sent me the most terrifying Creepy Talking Robot Update ever.   Check out this post from Pink Tentacle about RIBA the Robot Nurse from RIKEN. Now technically, RIBA–and her male counterpart RI-MAN–doesn’t speak.  However, these robotic nurses do respond to voice commands. Let’s Go To [...]

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Creepy Talking Robots Getting Too Creepy?

By Eric B. on July 27, 2009 | 1 Response

Speech Heads, it seems like even researchers and technologists from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) have also been struck with this summer’s creepy talking robot fever. According to a New York Times article today, a group of a-list scientists that included Eric Horvitz, researcher from Microsoft, and William Joy, the co-founder [...]

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