Masayuki Honda
Papers
8
Total Citations
79
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About
Masayuki Honda is a pioneering robotics researcher whose work centers on the development of anthropomorphic talking robots that faithfully replicate the biological and acoustic mechanisms of human speech production. Based at Waseda University, Honda has led the progressive development of the "Waseda Talker" (WT) series — sophisticated humanoid robots engineered with biologically inspired components including elastic vocal cords, multi-degree-of-freedom tongues and lips, lungs, and nasal cavities. His most cited work, the WT-5 robot (2005, 19 citations), introduced vocal cords constructed from thermoplastic rubber mimicking the elasticity of human tissue, representing a landmark achievement in biomechanical fidelity. Honda's research has tackled fundamental challenges in speech robotics, including formant frequency variation, acoustic simulation of vocal tract dynamics, and autonomous speech mimicry through auditory feedback. His development of sensory feedback mechanisms — enabling robots to produce obstacle consonants such as /t/ and /d/ — further bridges the gap between robotic and human speech. With cumulative citations across eight key publications, Honda's contributions have meaningfully advanced the fields of humanoid robotics, computational speech modeling, and human-machine interaction, offering valuable tools for studying the biomechanics of human vocal communication.
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- 2Development of a New Human-like Talking Robot for Human Vocal Mimicry14 citations · 2006
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