Lipreadability of a Synthetic Talking Face in Normal Hearing and Hearing-Impaired Listeners

AVSP 2003 - International Conference on Audio-Visual Speech Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 205-208

  Siciliano, Catherine ^a   Faulkner, Andrew ^a   Williams, Geoff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PROCESSING; TELEPHONE SETS;

HEARING IMPAIRED; HEARING IMPAIRMENTS; HEARING LOSS; HEARING-IMPAIRED LISTENERS; INFORMATION LOSS; NORMAL HEARING; NORMAL-HEARING LISTENERS; SYNTHETIC FACES; TALKING HEADS; TELEPHONE CONVERSATION;

AUDITION;

EID: 10444225671     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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