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Pepper (ペッパーくん) is a Japanese Song Voice developed and distributed by Techno-Speech, Inc. in collaboration with SoftBank Robotics Corp., and was released for VoiSona in January 2024.[1]
His voice provider has not been revealed.
Concept
Pepper is a 121cm tall humanoid robot who was born on June 5, 2014. Pepper is a general-purpose robot developed within the lens of human-computer interface research. The platform is actively deployed in fields such as in homes, shopping malls, schools, offices, and senior residential homes.[2]
Stats
- Size (Height x Width x Depth)
- 1210×480×425[mm]
- Weight
- 29kg
- Battery
- LITHIUM-ION Battery
- Dimension: 30.0Ah/795Wh
- Sensors
- Head : Microphone ×4, Camera ×2, Distance Sensor ×1,
- Touch Sensor ×3
- Chest : Gyroscope ×1
- Hands : Touch Sensor ×1
- Legs : Sonars ×2, Lazor Sensor ×6, Bumpers ×3,
- Gyroscope ×1, Infra-Red sensors ×2
- Moving parts
- [DoF] Head : 2, Sholder : 2×2(L/R), Elbow: 2×2(L/R),
- wrist : 1×2(L/R), Hand : 1×2(L/R), Waist : 2,
- Knee : 1, Wheel : 3
- [Motors] 20
- Display
- 10.1Inch touch display
- Communication Method
- Wi-Fi : IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n (2.4GHz/5GHz)
Appearance
WIP
History
Marketing
Pepper's VoiSona Song Voice was also installed in the robot's "Improvisational Performer" (即興パフォーマーとは Sokkyō Performer) application which can improvise lyrics using ChatGPT, melodies using Orpheus technology, singing using VoiSona technology and allowing the robot to dance when provided with themes and keywords. On January 11, 2024, SoftBank Robotics announced that synthesized voices of the same quality will also be available on VoiSona.[3]
Voicebanks
- Pepper
- Pepper (VoiSona), January 11, 2024
Media featuring Pepper
"VoiSona Pepper" on Niconico Video
"VoiSona Pepper" on YouTube
"VoiSona Pepper" on bilibili
"VoiSona Pepper" on SoundCloud- "VoiSona ペッパーくん" on Niconico Video
- "VoiSona ペッパーくん" on YouTube
- "VoiSona ペッパーくん" on bilibili
- "VoiSona ペッパーくん" on SoundCloud
Reputation
Status
Trivia
- In 2014, earlier models of the Pepper robot were equipped with AITalk[4][5] vocal synthesis technology developed by AI, Inc. to communicate, specifically using the voice of Maki (まき)[6], one of the many AI, Inc. avatars created for the AITalk software, based on the voice of Tamiyasu Tomoe, who's voice was also used as the basis for AH-Software Co. Ltd.'s brand of text-to-speech software, VOICEROID+ using the same voice for Tsurumaki Maki.[7] It is currently unknown if Tamiyasu Tomoe reprised her role as the voice provider for Pepper as the voice provider has not been disclosed.
- Following Pepper's release for VoiSona, Tamiyasu Tomoe posted a tweet under the alias of her Virtual YouTuber persona, Tammy (たみー), regarding the image use rights of Pepper, remarking the peculiarity and difficulty of using Pepper's voice library as using the official Pepper artworks was disallowed, nor was using secondary works permitted. She also posted an advertisement encouraging users to purchase Pepper for VoiSona.[8] Two months later on March 22, 2024, Tammy hosted a live Nico Nico Broadcast showcasing a cover of Happy Synthesizer featuring herself and Pepper as part of the 2024 Utattemita Collection (歌ってみたCollection). The video's title made reference to the pair's voices sounding similar, further alluding that Tomoe could in fact be the voice provider for Pepper.[9][10]
References
- ↑ https://twitter.com/VoiSonaOfficial/status/1745279373563822281
- ↑ https://voisona.com/artist/pepper_ja_JP_song/
- ↑ https://www.softbankrobotics.com/jp/product/pepper/retail/app-performer/
- ↑ https://www.ai-j.jp/topics/1773/
- ↑ https://www.ai-j.jp/client/voice8/
- ↑ https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_(ロボット)#仕様
- ↑ https://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/pepper
- ↑ https://x.com/tammy_now/status/1745691290866733520
- ↑ https://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv344686662 Pepper-kun and I sang “Happy Synthesizer” together, and for some reason our voices sound alike. (【ペッパー君と】何故か声の似ている同士「ハッピーシンセサイザ」歌ってみた【たみーで】)
- ↑ https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm43558600