We have developed a real-time system to transform an audio signal into several specialized representations of sound. The system uses analog circuit models of biological audition to compute these representations. We report on a speech recognizer that uses this system for feature extraction, and we evaluate the performance of this speech recognition system on a speaker-independent 13-word recogni...

In this paper, we introduce NAO, the humanoid robot developed by Aldebaran Robotics. For this robot, dedicated to be a companion, the interaction with humans is crucial and the audition appears to be a very important sense while the robotic community has been focusing on vision for a long time. Some of the developments on audio are presented.

Cyrille Rossant, Bertrand Fontaine, Anna K. Magnusson, and Romain Brette Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France; Equipe Audition, Département d’Etudes Cognitives, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France; Center for Hearing and Communication Research, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; and Departmen...