Text-to-visual speech synthesis based on parameter generation from HMM

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 6, Issue , 1998, Pages 3745-3748

  Masuko, Takashi ^a   Kobayashi, Takao ^a   Tamura, Masatsune ^a   Masubuchi, Jun ^a   Tokuda, Keiichi ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CO-ARTICULATION; DYNAMIC FEATURES; LIP MOVEMENTS; PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTIONS; SYNTHESIS PHASE; TEXT TO SPEECH; TRAINING PHASE; UNIFIED FRAMEWORK;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0031625721     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.1998.679698     Document Type: Conference Paper

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