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This is an artificial mouth created by Japanese researchers. It uses artificial vocal cords, a trachea system, and a flexible silicone mouth that moves and shapes sound in real time. It sounds so human-like!

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Video of this thing was featured in Dan Deacon's _Off the Air_ on Adult Swim. For those who've never seen _Off the Air_, this thing is about a 5/10 on the scales of weird/disturbing/cool that clips featured on the show range across.

Serious answer, as a guy who actually did study phonology quite a bit, there are so many problems in their approach Where are the teeth? Nothing moves the lips--no pursing? The tongue can only fully block airflow??? What about uvular sounds? It's an abomination even to linguists, is my point