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Bertsobot : the first minstrel robot

Article: English. Bibliographic reference
Author(s)
Agirrezabal, Manex ; Astigarraga Pagoaga, Aitzol ; Jauregi, Ekaitz ; Lazkano Ortega, Elena ; Sierra, Basilio
Title
Bertsobot : the first minstrel robot / Aitzol Astigarraga, Manex Agirrezabal, Elena Lazkano
In
2013 6th International Conference on Human System Interactions (HSI), 2013, 129 - 136
Subjects
Bertsolaritza
Other authors
EHU. Ixa Taldea
Type of material
Article
ISBN / ISSN
978-1-4673-5637-4 ; 978-1-4673-5636-7
We describe a robot capable of composing and playing traditional Basque impromptu verses - bertsoak. The system, called Bertsobot, is able to construct improvised verses according to given constraints on rhyme and meter, and to perform it in public. Towards this end, several tools and applications have been developed and integrated in Bertsobot, including: speech-based communication system, text applications for verse generation, and robot behaviours to interact with the environment in a public performance. We describe the tools and processes behind our approach, present some early experimental results and illustrative verses, and finally, remark the conclusions and future steps.