TEXT-TO-AUDIO-VISUAL SPEECH SYNTHESIS BASED ON PARAMETER GENERATION FROM HMM

6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 959-962

  Tamura, Masatsune ^a   Kondo, Shigekazu ^a   Masuko, Takashi ^a   Kobayashi, Takao ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

AUDIO FEATURES; AUDIO-VISUAL SPEECH; DYNAMIC FEATURES; LIP MOTIONS; PERFORMANCE; SYNTHESIS TECHNIQUES; TRIPHONES; UNIFIED FRAMEWORK; VISUAL FEATURE; VISUAL SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84919370414     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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