LIPS2008: Visual speech synthesis challenge

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2310-2313

  Theobald, Barry John ^a   Fagel, Sascha ^b   Bailly, Gérard ^c   Elisei, Frédéric ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Visual speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

EVALUATION; EVALUATION FRAMEWORK; TALKING HEADS; TRAINING DATA; VISUAL SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84867222285     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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