March 13, 2023
CereProc has collaborated with Honda Research Institute Tokyo on the Haru Social Robot Project since 2016 when the CereProc team met Randy Gomez, Haru Project Lead. Together we created one of the most engaging characterful voices in the world. This multi-style voice can vary from whisper, whine, and secretive to hyper enthusiastic. Created with an authentic child voice it is the voice of Haru, a cheeky and engaging social robot
In addition to the characterful voice CereProc has also worked on producing fluid conversational turn-taking with Haru. Based on the CereProc Chatty SDK the robot can react almost immediately to key words and follow a script so it can act. At HRI 2023 Dr Aylett presented a script following demo that show cased Haru’s acting talent. Below is a video of the script operated with the virtual Haru.