Photo-realistic expressive text to talking head synthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 2667-2669

  Wan, Vincent ^a   Anderson, Robert ^b   Blokland, Art ^a   Braunschweiler, Norbert ^a   Chen, Langzhou ^a   Kolluru, BalaKrishna ^a   Latorre, Javier ^a   Maia, Ranniery ^a   Stenger, Björn ^a   Yanagisawa, Kayoko ^a   Stylianou, Yannis ^a   Akamine, Masami ^a   Gales, Mark J F ^a   Cipolla, Roberto ^a  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Expressive and controllable speech synthesis; Visual speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; USER INTERFACES;

ACTIVE APPEARANCE MODELS; CLUSTER ADAPTIVE TRAINING; DEGREE OF CONTROL; EXPRESSIVE SPEECH; FACIAL ANIMATION; FACIAL MOVEMENTS; NATURAL USER INTERFACES; VISUAL SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84906253320     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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