Allophonic variations in visual speech synthesis for corrective feedback in CAPT

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 5708-5711

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

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

allophone; Audiovisual; coarticulation; language learning; synthesizer

Indexed keywords

ALLOPHONE; AUDIOVISUAL; CO-ARTICULATION; LANGUAGE LEARNING; SYNTHESIZER;

SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; VISUALIZATION;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 80051642924     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2011.5947656     Document Type: Conference Paper

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