Data-driven synthesis of expressive visual speech using an MPEG-4 talking head

9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 793-796

  Beskow, Jonas ^a   Nordenberg, Mikael ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DATA STRUCTURES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPEECH; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

COARTICULATION MODEL; EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION; MODEL SPEECH; SYNTHESIZED SPEECH; TALKING HEAD;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33745218748     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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