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Hitachi's Humanoid Robot EMIEW to Appear in Show at Sheraton Grande.


Tokyo, Japan, Feb 24, 2006 - (JCN) - Hitachi and Hitachi Building Systems jointly announced on February 23 that they will organize an event for children, in which Hitachi's proprietary humanoid robot EMIEW EMIEW - Excellent Mobility and Interactive Existence as Workmate (robot) will make an appearance, in collaboration with the Sheraton Grande Tokyo Bay Hotel.

Costarring with the Hotel's official mascot Penton, EMIEW will demonstrate its abilities in speech synthesis Generating machine voice by arranging phonemes (k, ch, sh, etc.) into words. It is used to turn text input into spoken words for the blind. Speech synthesis performs realtime conversion without a predefined vocabulary, but does not create perfect-sounding human speech. Although individual spoken words can be digitized into the computer, it takes more storage, and the resulting phrases still lack inflection., voice recognition, and autonomous moving.

The event will show that EMIEW will learn proper wording and behavior as a hotel clerk from Penton. The event will be held from March 6 through 12.

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