As mentioned before in an earlier post on our blog we are constantly looking for ways to automate tasks by using robots. Now blogging can take a lot of your time as a lot of you reading this can testify. It is time consuming to locate appropriate and good looking content on the web for your blog. NEC may have the solution! They have developed a system that facilitates simple and easy creation of multi-media rich blogs by carrying out the background work for the user. This means the robot will take care of searching for images, videos and content. They have developed a new system for automatically creating multi-media blogs with these…….

The PaPeRo Robots

PaPeRo Robot Translating

PaPeRo Robot giving directions

The key features of PapeRo the Robot

You can chat with PaPeRo to create your daily blog

The speech contents of the video message are converted into text and extracted through large-vocabulary, continuous speech recognition technology. Multi-media web contents matching the extracted keywords are then uploaded and edited on the user’s blog, enabling effortless creation of a multi-media blog.

Natural language, text retrieval technology enables searching for internet media

Analyzing the syntactic relationship, such as direct objects and predicate verbs, the system calculates similarities between the text in the contents on the internet and the video message text converted by a speech recognition engine (developed with a large database of spoken words). This allows searching and accurate location of multi-media contents suitable to the contents of the text message.

NEC is currently working on this system toward early commercialization. We will keep you updated on availability. Some day soon RoboTokyo will be run using PaPeRo. Nec if you are reading this can you send us a PaPeRo robot for beta testing thank you.

Source - http://www.nec.co.jp/press/en/0703/0501.html

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