Development of an articulatory visual-speech synthesizer to support language learning

2010 7th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, ISCSLP 2010 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 139-143

  Wong, Ka Ho ^a   Leung, Wai Kim ^a   Lo, Wai Kit ^a   Meng, Helen ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Articulatory phonetics; Computer assisted language learning; Text to audiovisual systhesis; Visual speech synthesizer

Indexed keywords

ARTICULATORY PHONETICS; COMPUTER-ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING; LANGUAGE LEARNING; MORPHING; SPEECH ANIMATION; SPEECH SIGNALS; SPEECH SYNTHESIZER; TEXT INPUT; TEXT-TO-AUDIOVISUAL SYSTHESIS; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIZERS; VISEMES; VISUAL SPEECH; VISUAL-SPEECH SYNTHESIZER;

ANIMATION; LINGUISTICS;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION;

EID: 79851477484     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISCSLP.2010.5684832     Document Type: Conference Paper

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