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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Neurorobot.
Volume 18 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fnbot.2024.1478181
This article is part of the Research Topic Recent Advances in Image Fusion and Quality Improvement for Cyber-Physical Systems, Volume III View all articles

Multimodal Fusion-powered English Speaking Robot

Provisionally accepted
  • The College of Henan Procuratorial Profession, Zhengzhou Henan province, 450003, Zhengzhou, China

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon.

    Speech recognition and multimodal learning are two critical areas in machine learning.Current multimodal speech recognition systems often encounter challenges such as high computational demands and model complexity. To overcome these issues, we propose a novel framework-EnglishAL-Net, a Multimodal Fusion-powered English Speaking Robot. This framework leverages the ALBEF model, optimizing it for real-time speech and multimodal interaction, and incorporates a newly designed text and image editor to fuse visual and textual information. The robot processes dynamic spoken input through the integration of Neural Machine Translation (NMT), enhancing its ability to understand and respond to spoken language. In our experimental evaluation, we developed a dataset of diverse scenarios and oral commands for testing. Results demonstrate that compared to traditional unimodal approaches, our model significantly improves both language comprehension accuracy and response speed. This research advances the capabilities of multimodal interaction in robotics, offering promising applications in education, disaster relief, customer service, and beyond, with substantial theoretical and practical implications.

    Keywords: ALBEF, NMT(Neural Machine Translation), Cross-attention mechanism, multimodal robot, speech recognition

    Received: 09 Aug 2024; Accepted: 07 Oct 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Ruiying. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Pan Ruiying, The College of Henan Procuratorial Profession, Zhengzhou Henan province, 450003, Zhengzhou, China

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